ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,531, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Pure Storage Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Hyper-convergence with scheduler extensions for software-defined container storage solutions" was invented by Dinesh Israni (San Jose, Calif.), Vinod Jayaraman (San Francisco) and Goutham Rao (Los Altos Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illustrative computing system may include a master node that includes a prioritization module. The master node may be in communication with each of a plurality of containerized application nodes. The prioritization module may be configured to determine node prioritization information indicating a relative p...