ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,806, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Global service catalog for provisioning services on a multi-cluster service mesh of a multi-cluster computing environment" was invented by Xuebin He (Westwood, Mass.) and Victor Fong (Melrose, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprises a processing device configured to identify one or more dependent services for a workload deployed in a first computing cluster of a multi-cluster computing environment and to select, utilizing a global service catalog aggregating service information for sets of available services offered by at least two comput...