US Patent Issued to International Business Machines, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on Feb. 10 for "Serverless computing using resource multiplexing" (Illinois, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,461, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.) and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Urbana, Ill.).

"Serverless computing using resource multiplexing" was invented by Jovan Stojkovic (Champaign, Ill.), Hubertus Franke (Cortlandt Manor, N.Y.), Tianyin Xu (Urbana, Ill.) and Josep Torrellas (Champaign, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method manages function execution in a container. A dispatcher in the container running in a computer system executes a function initialization in response to a first request for a function. The dispatcher in the container ru...