ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,362, issued on April 14, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Microservice catalog generation and inference based selection of microservices" was invented by Jayachandu Bandlamudi (Guntur, India), Sreenivasa Rao Pamidala (McLean, Va.) and Subil Mathew Abraham (Lewisville, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mechanisms are provided for indexing microservices for optimized querying based on microservice attributes. A plurality of application graph data structures are generated with nodes representing microservices and edges representing functionality of microservices. A data transformation is perform...