ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,647, issued on July 14, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Container storage management method and apparatus" was invented by Ming Li (Xi'an, China) and Xiaokang He (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application relates to container storage management methods and apparatuses. An example method is used to manage a containerized application. The containerized application is deployed in a first container cluster. The first container cluster includes a plurality of nodes. The method includes collecting a plurality of pieces of storage association information from the plurality of nodes. The ...