ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,773, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Autonomous configuration-based release orchestration with autonomous runtime container management configuration" was invented by Vijay Karani (Fremont, Calif.), Arunabha Ghosh (San Jose, Calif.), Firas Saltaji (Mississauga, Canada), Varun Arvind Jobanputra (New York) and Brian Whitten (Burlingame, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for autonomous container management configuration changes to container clusters during runtime and autonomous configuration-based release orchestration. A release manager manages a staggered feature release th...