ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,716, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Intuit Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Resource utilization forecasting for predictive autoscaling" was invented by Xiaotang Shao (Cupertino, Calif.), Hui Luo (Fremont, Calif.), Estela Ramirez Ramirez (San Jose, Calif.), Zihan Jiang (Foster City, Calif.), Sen Lin (Santa Clara, Calif.), Shreyas Badiger Mahadev (Santa Clara, Calif.), Navin Kumar Jammula (Dublin, Calif.), Yuxuan Zhu (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Chun-Che Peng (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the disclosure provide techniques for predictive autoscaling. A method includes determining resource utilization metrics f...