ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,127, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to International Business Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Managing workloads in container pools" was invented by Lior Aronovich (Thornhill, Canada) and Julian Payne (Entrevaux, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method for managing jobs using job processing pools. A computer system receives a job having a job type. The computer system identifies a job processing pool in the job processing pools for running the jobs of the job type, wherein the job processing pool comprises job processors for running the jobs of the job type and wherein another job processing pool in the job proc...