ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,222, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING Ltd. (George Town, Cayman Islands).

"Application management method and apparatus" was invented by Mingwei Shi (Hangzhou, China), Yu Ding (Hangzhou, China), Xiaorui Wang (Hangzhou, China), Xinyu Zhou (Hangzhou, China), Zhanhui Li (Hangzhou, China) and Zhouxiang Zhan (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An application management method includes collecting a plurality of objects in an application instance used for serverless computing and generating a base tree according to a reference hierarchical relationship of the plurality of objects; performing internal memor...