ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,677, issued on March 3, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Automated recipe generation for orchestrated application recovery" was invented by Travis Janssen (San Jose, Calif.), Brian D. Hatfield (Tucson, Ariz.), Paul Henri Muench (San Jose, Calif.) and Runyu Jin (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A selected recipe operating successfully on the second orchestration container for a transferred target application is confirmed. The recipes for transferring the target application to the second orchestration container are formed. The recipe for transferring the target application to the second orc...