ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,261, issued on April 14, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Container scheduling according to preempting a set of preemptable containers deployed in a cluster" was invented by Thavamaniraja Sakthivel (Bangalore, India), Siva Subramaniam Manicka (Bangalore, India) and Vinnarasu Ganesan (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples described herein relate to a scheduling assistance sub-system for deploying a container in a cluster comprising member nodes. The scheduling assistance sub-system receives a container deployment request to deploy the container and forwards it to a contain...