ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,020, issued on June 10, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Volume replication of stateful-sets" was invented by Padmanabha Venkatagiri Seshadri (Mysore, India) and Krishnasuri Narayanam (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of replicating the volume of stateful-sets by receiving input request types for each container of a number of containers, extracting control flow paths and mapping the input request types to the extracted control flow paths. The method learns control flow path-to-volume mappings by computing, for each control flow path of the number of control flow paths, (i)...