ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,938, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Nanoservice computing and architecture" was invented by Eric L. Caron (Ottawa) and Eric Bruno (Shirley, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nanoservice architecture allows a service to include multiple functions or features along with a common skeleton code. Each of the nanoservices in a service may be configured using a common configuration file. The configuration file may include a portion that configures requirements or resources common to all nanoservices and other portions that are specific to associated nanoservices."

The patent was filed on Aug. 25...