ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,044, issued on April 29, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Microservice creation using runtime metadata" was invented by Akshar Kaul (Bengaluru, India), Himanshu Gupta (Vasant Kunj, India), Sameep Mehta (Bengaluru, India), Srikanth Govindaraj Tamilselvam (Chennai, India), Amith Singhee (Bengaluru, India), Vaibhav Sudhakar Dantale (Bibwewadi, India) and Ravi Vishnu Israni (Mumbai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method creates microservices for an application. A number of processor units clusters programs and data structures for the application using runtime metadata to f...