ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,203, issued on March 25, was assigned to PAYPAL INC. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Container orchestration framework" was invented by Srinivasan Manoharan (San Jose, Calif.), Vinesh Chirakkil (San Jose, Calif.), Yuehao Wu (Cupertino, Calif.), Junhua Zhao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Xiaoying Han (San Jose, Calif.), Chun Kiat Ho (Singapore), Premila Viswanathan (Dublin, Calif.) and Lin Song (Singapore).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are presented for providing a container orchestration framework for facilitating development and deployment of software applications across different operating environments within an enterprise system. ...