ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,730, issued on July 1, was assigned to NETAPP INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"System and method for infrastructure scaling" was invented by Tal Zur (Ramat Gan, Israel) and Ori Yemini (Hod Hasharon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, system and computer program product, the method comprising: determining properties of a set of containers that are deployed over a computer infrastructure, wherein the computer infrastructure is provisioned via an infrastructure management service; determining properties of one or more headroom containers, wherein the one or more headroom containers are not deployed over the computer infrastructure;...