ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,032, issued on May 20, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Geographic scaling in a container based cloud infrastructure" was invented by Xuejun Cai (Taby, Sweden), Jinhua Feng (Bromma, Sweden) and Srinivasa Vinay Yadhav (Upplands Vasby, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The application relates to a method for operating a first scaling entity 100 of a container based cloud infrastructure distributed over a plurality of geographically distributed edge sites 20-22 of a network, wherein the container based cloud infrastructure provides at least one service to a user of the network, the method comprisi...