ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,093, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Dynamic cloud offloading" was invented by Sagiv Draznin (Walnut Creek, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dynamic offloading system is provided, which monitors resource demand by one or more applications executing on an on-prem server and supply of curated cloud space on one or more registered cloud service providers to automatically create an instance and offload applications associated with spikes in the resource demand. The curated cloud space may be preconfigured for specific processing and/or more general processing. For instance, ...