ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,605, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Live migration of clusters in containerized environments" was invented by Daniel Veritas Smith (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology provides for live migration from a first cluster to a second cluster. For instance, when requests to one or more cluster control planes are received, a predetermined fraction of the received requests may be allocated to a control plane of the second cluster, while a remaining fraction of the received requests may be allocated to a control plane of the first cluster. The predetermined fraction of reque...