ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,142, issued on May 27, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Service/workload recovery and restoration in container orchestration systems" was invented by Yong Wang (San Jose, Calif.) and Maxime Deputter Renaud (Livermore, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed technology comprises a technique and/or mechanism for performing backup/restore and/or DR in cloud computing environments, particularly in environments that make use of K8s. The technique generally includes capturing the create, update, and delete ("CUD") object mutation orders of resources or objects that are proven to be working on a primary site,...