ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,393, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Dynamic pod priority inference utilizing service mesh telemetry data" was invented by Martin A. Ross (Gosport, Great Britain), Jack William Donato Evans (Rochester, Great Britain), Luke James Powlett (Romsey, Great Britain) and Jack Richard William Stevenson (Winchester, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Dynamically calculating and re-calculating priority values for a set of microservices that are deployed and run in a containerized environment. Before new priority values are assigned to the microservices, an initial default priori...