ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,522, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Method and system for optimizing internal network traffic in Kubernetes" was invented by Mukesh Kumar Sharma (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing network traffic includes: identifying, by a source pod, a port of a first service; in response to the identifying the port of the first service, connecting, by the source pod, to the port of the first service; receiving, by the source pod, a first notification from the first service, after the first notification: identifying, by the source pod, a port of a second service; in response...