ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,895, issued on March 4, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Event-driven provisioning of an elastic orchestration platform" was invented by Xun Pan (Xi'an, China), Guang Ya Liu (Xi'an, China), Hai Hui Wang (Xi'an, China), Peng Li (Xi'an, China) and Xiang Zhen Gan (Xi'an, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provisioning an orchestration platform is provided. A pre-application programming interface (API) server hook is used to preprocess a request to generate a custom resource in the orchestration platform. The pre-API server hook generates a custom resource definition corresponding to the custom res...