ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,473, issued on May 13, was assigned to HULU LLC (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Dependency injection with auto-serialization in multiple worker system" was invented by Rui Bie (Beijing), Han Qin (Beijing) and Jian Ren (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a system performs a service using a plurality of compute nodes. A second compute node installs a dependency injection container to manage a dependency graph of dependencies for classes in an application. The dependency injection container is determined from a first compute node in the plurality of compute nodes that manages performing the service with the plurality o...