ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,789, issued on April 22, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Using a remote pod in kubernetes" was invented by Qi Feng Huo (Beijing), Xiaojing Liu (Beijing), Dan Qing Huang (Beijing), Lei Li (Beijing), Da Li Liu (Beijing), Yuan Yuan Wang (Beijing) and Yan Song Liu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are directed to using remote pods. An intermediary software is instantiated in a worker node virtual machine and is used to cause a pod virtual machine to be created, the pod virtual machine being remote from the worker node virtual machine. An overlay network is established between the in...