ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,691, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Normalized concurrency limits for throttling and fault isolation in a routing service" was invented by Kushal Suresh Narkhede (Redmond, Wash.) and Daniel Walzenbach (Lake Stevens, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The processing capabilities of the machines in a routing service are evaluated and traffic patterns indicative of how calls are made to different dependency services are identified. The capabilities of the routing service and the traffic patterns are used to generate a dynamic limit model that dynamically limits the number of ca...