ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,402, issued on July 22, was assigned to Kyndryl Inc (New York).

"Intelligent backup and restoration of containerized environment" was invented by Girish Vilas Rane (Mumbai, India), Pei Wen Khor (Singapore) and Kim Poh Wong (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for determining the optimal backup and restore location for lightweight applications is provided. A computer device identifies a set of training data, wherein the training data identifies a lightweight container, a corresponding backup lightweight container, and an optimization score for the lightweight container and the corresponding backup lightweight container. ...