US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on March 4 for "Securing metrics in a service mesh" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,573, issued on March 4, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Securing metrics in a service mesh" was invented by James Warren Turner (London), Christopher James Paterson (Hertford, Great Britain) and Alex John Hockey (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Information is provided to a service mesh by a Kubernetes (K8s) controller. The information enables the service mesh to determine an IP address of application pods to which a monitoring request is destined. The K8s controller detects which of the application pods are scheduled to be monitored by the monitoring service. The K8s controller creates dumm...