ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,841, issued on July 28, was assigned to DRUVA INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"System and method for reference-aware application identification in container deployment environments" was invented by Preethi Srinivasan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Srikiran Gottipati (Vijayawada, India), Stephen Manley (Livermore, Calif.) and Nishith Chitaliya (Amravati, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for identifying a plurality of resources that define an application in a container deployment environment is presented. The system includes a reference detection module configured to detect and store one or more reference paths corresponding to each resou...