ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,266, issued on March 11, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for automated deployment of load-balanced services in a containerized environment" was invented by Bharath Thiruveedula (Irving, Texas) and John M. Bittenbender (Bloomsburg, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system described herein may receive a request to configure a load-balanced service in a containerized environment. The system may include an indication of a particular network with which the load-balanced service should communicate. The system may generate a load balancer proxy node. Generating the load balan...