ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,098, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Deployment of pod cohorts" was invented by Ajay Punreddy (Cambridge, Mass.), Piotr Galecki (Lexington, Mass.), Dinesh Kumar Ramasamy (Chicago), Thuy Phuong Fernandes (Westford, Mass.) and Huanglin Xiong (Dover, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for orchestrating a cohort deployment in a computing network comprising a plurality of computing nodes implementing a virtualized computing network managed by an orchestrator. The cohort deployment is managed by a deployment broker configured to coordinate the cohort deployme...