ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,414, issued on April 15, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Controlled updates of containers in a distributed application deployment environment" was invented by Mayank Kumar (Freemont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and methods are described for implementing controlled updates of containers in a distributed application deployment environment. In one implementation, a method comprises: receiving a request to update a target container of a plurality of containers within a deployed computing unit; identifying an updated configuration object to be applied to the target container based on the request; receivin...