ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,646, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Cluster infrastructure with on-demand activation" was invented by Huamin Chen (Westboro, Mass.), Chen Wang (Chappaqua, N.Y.) and Ricardo Noriega De Soto (Madrid).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A request is received over a network. The request is directed to a service provided by an application of a cluster infrastructure. The cluster infrastructure includes the application and a control plane to schedule execution of the application. Responsive to receiving the request, the control plane of the cluster infrastructure is transitioned from a stopped state to an activ...