ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,190, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Algorithm and differentiated weights for resource constrained processes" was invented by Adam Thomas Bishop (Morrisville, N.C.), Vlade Lekic (Belgrade, Serbia), Yogesh Kumar (Sammamish, Wash.) and Muthukumaran Arumugam (Kent, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The techniques disclosed herein enhance the functionality of network computing infrastructure in resource constrained processes. This is accomplished by assigning differentiated weights to instances of a software service based on the role of the instance. In the context of the presen...