ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,985, issued on April 21, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Dynamic rebalancing of containerized application cluster" was invented by Charan Acharya Chandrashekar (Bangalore, India), Hemant Kumar Sivaswamy (Bangalore, India), Raja Rahul (Visakhapatnam, India) and Arashad Ahamad (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A moving server containerized application cluster can be dynamically rebalanced. Future incoming workload to a first moving server containerized application cluster is determined. Based on the future incoming workload, at least one worker node is requested from a peer moving ...