ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,116, issued on July 28, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Managing different versions of security information in an orchestration platform" was invented by Xinpeng Liu (Austin, Texas), Jing Jing Wei (Beijing), Jia Lin Wang (Beijing), Ping Mei (Beijing), Da Guang Sun (Changping, China), Yang Kang (Beijing), Bing Ding (Beijing) and Yi Fan Wu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for managing versions of security information. A processor set receives a request to add a first version of security information for a number of pods in an orchestration platform. The number o...