US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on July 15 for "Techniques for deploying workloads in a cloud-computing environment" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,822, issued on July 15, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Techniques for deploying workloads in a cloud-computing environment" was invented by Sanjeev Mehrotra (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are examples for providing a standby workload to replace an active workload, including initializing a container for the standby workload that includes an entry point that points to a binary to be executed by the container, modifying the entry point of the container to execute a script that monitors a communication channel for an instruction for executing the standby workload, and inst...