ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,845, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Modular decomposition and composition of container software management clusters in hybrid cloud" was invented by Vishal Anand (Dublin), John Paul Easton (Bradley, Great Britain), Ulrike Vauth (Boeblingen, Germany), Srinivas Koushik (New Albany, Ohio) and Reena Sandhir (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Replicating a software cluster which includes control software and containers in another computing environment can include software operators which can be generated relating to modular functionalities of a control software cluster...