ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,674, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Network utilization-aware scheduler for container orchestration systems" was invented by Michael Henkel (Saratoga, Calif.), Chandrabhan Singh (Bokaro, India) and FNU Nadeem (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In general, techniques are described for deploying workloads of containerized services to worker nodes in a network using network telemetry-aware scheduling. In an example, a method comprises obtaining, by a computing system, network utilization data for one or more worker nodes, wherein each worker node is capable of ex...