ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,468, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to BlackRock Finance Inc. (New York).

"Systems and methods for a customizable state machine controller based application deployment engine" was invented by Infant Rosario Vasanth (New York) and Vaibhav Page (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A software deployment system may be built based on a Kubernetes-native state machine for Function-As-A-Service (FaaS) workloads. The state machine is defined as a Kubernetes Custom Resource which is a structured domain specific language that extends the Kubernetes platform by providing ability to spin managed workloads that run a custom state machine. Sp...