ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,465, issued on March 31, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Function as a service fusion deployment" was invented by Yair Yotam (Beer Sheva, Israel), Boris Shpilyuck (Ashdod, Israel) and Igor Dubrovsky (Beer Sheva, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can determine that a first containerized function invokes a second containerized function. The system can identify a first number of instances of the first containerized function, and a second number of instances of the second containerized function. The system can determine a first cost of executing the first number of instances of the first containerized...