ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,048, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Containerized application management" was invented by Anubhab Majumdar (Los Altos, Calif.), Harsh Kumar (Fremont, Calif.) and George Hicken (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, computer-readable medium and computer system to execute containerized applications includes initiating a Supervisor Cluster on top of a SDDC to support execution of containerized applications. A supervisor cluster namespace is created on the Supervisor Cluster. A storage policy is attached to the supervisor cluster namespace. Then, a control plane i...