ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,940, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Micro Focus LLC (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Application tuning based on performance characteristics" was invented by Harish Kumar Somisetty (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to examples, an apparatus may include a processor and a memory on which are stored machine-readable instructions that when executed by the processor, may cause the processor to receive information regarding a performance characteristic of an application during predetermined time periods. The processor may calculate a rate of change in the performance characteristic over the predetermined time periods. Bas...