ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,682, issued on July 22, was assigned to PAYPAL INC. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Software load balancer to maximize utilization" was invented by Rema Hariharan (Austin, Texas), Sathyamangalam Ramaswamy Venkatramanan (Cupertino, Calif.), Ashok Srinivasa Murthy (San Jose, Calif.) and Rami El-Charif (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A load balancer receives a sequence of requests for computing service and distributes the requests for computing service to a computing node in an ordered list of computing nodes until the computing node reaches its maximum allowable compute capability. Responsive to an indication that the computing n...