ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,733, issued on May 20, was assigned to Nutanix Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Key value store in a clustered containerized system" was invented by Gaurav Poothia (Redmond, Wash.), Heiko Koehler (San Jose, Calif.) and Pankit Thapar (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A containerized clustered computing system may be used to provide a platform as a service (PaaS) environment. The clustered system may be configured by initiating a bootstrap node including a first cluster infrastructure orchestrator and first container orchestrator and migrating cluster metadata to a key value store of the first container orchestrator. A second node in th...