ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,515, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Containerized network function deployment during runtime resource creation" was invented by Abhishek Kumar (Bangalore, India), Ravi Potluri (Coppell, Texas) and Hans Raj Nahata (New Providence, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods described herein provide a Specialized-Operator enabled with admission control functionalities and Custom Resource Definition (CRD) plugins responsible for improving the reliability of the CNF Lifecycle Management operations for deploying containerized workloads on any heterogeneous cloud pla...