ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,243, issued on July 29, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Using a nanoservice to inform an external job service of a job status of a microservice" was invented by Hariprasad Venkateshaiah (Bangalore, India), Gireesh Punathil (Bangalore, India), Tirumalesh Killamsetty (Bangalore, India) and Sariga D (Kozhikode District, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method according to one embodiment includes determining, using a nanoservice in a first cluster, whether a microservice of a second cluster has restarted. In response to a determination that the microservice has restarted, ...