US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Jan. 13 for "Intelligent upgrade workflow for a container orchestration system" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,705, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Intelligent upgrade workflow for a container orchestration system" was invented by Shweta Vohra (Bangalore, India), Madhusmita Patil (Hyderabad, India), Atul Misra (Bangalore, India), William A. Brown (Raleigh, N.C.) and Scott E. Schneider (Rolesville, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach is provided for upgrading containerized applications in cluster(s) in a container orchestration system. State information about the containerized applications is identified and analyzed. Based on the state information, an upgrade path for an upg...