ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,203, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou, China).

"Container-based task execution method and apparatus" was invented by Yu Fei Lu (Hangzhou, China), Ting Cheng Wu (Hangzhou, China), Xing Yu Chen (Hangzhou, China) and Xiao Long Hu (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this specification provide a container-based task execution method and apparatus. The method can be performed by a container management platform. When receiving a task description file that is for a to-be-executed task and that is submitted by a user, the container management platform can...