ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,601, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Optimal pod management to meet defined target objectives" was invented by Rajesh Kumar Saxena (Thane West, India), Tanmay Arvind Ambre (Pune, India), Nampreet Pal Singh (Pune, India), Amit Deshpande (Pune, India) and Harish Bharti (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Optimal pod management is provided. A pod-warm component located on a host node is directed to trigger generation of a pod snapshot image of a pod in an optimal state running on the host node in response to determining that the pod has attained the optimal state. An input ...