ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,260, issued on July 29, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Cloud infrastructure recommendations to deploy pods" was invented by Hemani Katyal (Bangalore, India), Krishna Karthik Reddy Jonnala (Hyderabad, India), Gurusreekanth Chagalakondu (Bangalore, India), Swati Singhvi (Bangalore, India) and Keshav S (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example, a computer implemented method may include receiving a request including a set of workload descriptors. Further, the method may include parsing the set of workload descriptors to determine a set of pods and a set of constraints associated with the set of pods...