ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,078, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"Flexible volume provisioning" was invented by Kalyan C Gunda (Shrewsbury, Mass.), Xiao Le Shang (Shanghai) and Mikhail Borisov (Dublin).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is technology that facilitates provisioning of persistent volumes for pods to be hosed at a node of a computer system. For instance, operations can be performed, comprising responding to a pod hosting request that comprises request data defining sub-requests for inclusion of respective persistent volumes in a pod, identifying persistent volumes that at least partially satisfy the pod...