ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,331, issued on June 17, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Dynamic scaling of a distributed computing system" was invented by Orit Wasserman (Mitzpe Aviv, Israel) and Yehoshua Salomon (Kfar Saba, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique for dynamic scaling of a distributed computing system is described. In one example of the present disclosure, a system can include a base node configured to provide an access point to a distributed computing system and for servicing a first portion of requests and to generate at least one compute node based on a first load of the base node. The system can also include the at least...