ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,248, issued on June 24, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Intelligent dynamic scaling based on internal and external indicators" was invented by Nicolas Harry Neate (Reading, Great Britain) and Murray William Rogers (Enfield, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for allocating computing resources in a computing network of a cloud computing system, the computing resources comprising a plurality of computing devices hosting virtual machines. An expected usage profile is determined based on first data indicative of a current demand for computing resource usage in the c...