ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,997, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Ring architecture-based workload distribution in a microservice computing environment" was invented by Rohit Gosain (Bangalore, India) and Shibi Panikkar (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for managing workloads in data processing systems. For example, a method determines a set of containers for processing a given workload of data records, wherein each container of the set of containers is configured to process a given subset of the data records. The method causes deployment of the set of containers in a ring configur...