ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,327, issued on June 17, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Coordinated container scheduling for improved resource allocation in virtual computing environment" was invented by Jeremy Warner Olmsted-Thompson (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology provides for allocating an available resource in a computing system by bidirectional communication between a hypervisor and a container scheduler in the computing system. The computing system for allocating resources includes one or more processors configured to receive a first scheduling request to initiate a first container on a first virtual machine having ...