ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,727, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Intelligent container management utilizing runtime mutating webhook" was invented by Debabrata Sarkar (Sutton, Great Britain), Dipesh Rawat (Winchester, Great Britain), Kishor Shankarrao Kulkarni (Gadag, India) and Matthew John Comer (Southampton, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Intelligent container management is provided. An issue that caused a failed state of a container is identified based on an analysis of exit code information, container log information, host node agent log information, and resource utilization data corr...