ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,280, issued on April 21, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Snapshot creation for persistent volumes" was invented by Wei Gong (Beijing), Gang Lyu (Shanghai), Yun Feng Ma (Beijing), Jing Zhao (Beijing), Fang Yuan Cheng (Beijing) and Fu Long Wang (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, in one approach, includes causing a persistent volume list for application services in a container orchestration system to be maintained, and in response to receiving a request from a first application to create a snapshot of persistent volumes in a first application service, identifying, within the persist...