ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,950, issued on March 17, was assigned to Genentech Inc. (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Service orchestration within a distributed pod based system" was invented by Niaz Ahsan Jalal (South San Francisco, Calif.) and Abdesslem Dridi (South San Francisco, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to techniques for service orchestration within a distributed pod based system. Particularly, aspects are directed to receiving, at a kernel residing on a distributed computing environment, a request to initiate deployment for a subservice or service on the distributed computing environment. The subservice or service...