ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,154, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Propagating job contexts to a job execution environment" was invented by Xun Pan (Xian, China), Wen Qing Jin (Xian, China), Chao Deng (Xian, China) and Yu Dong Wang (Xian, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a job management environment comprising a plurality of job systems and a scheduler for scheduling a job submitted to the job management environment to a job system for running, a processor, in a first job system, intercepts, from outside of a first container in the first job system, a first job from being sent to the scheduler. A ...