ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,747, issued on July 14, was assigned to Databricks Inc. (San Francisco).

"Resource management for numa awareness architecture for VM-based container in KUBERNETES environment" was invented by Shuo Chen (Belleview, Wash.), Yuming Qiao (Kenmore, Wash.) and Anders Liu (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A configuration manages resources for NUMA awareness for virtual machine (VM) based containers in a Kubernetes environment. The configuration initializes micro-virtual machines (VMs) within a macro-VM environment and generates a sandbox and a container for each micro-VM of the set of micro-VMs. The configuration assigns a virt...