ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,882, issued on May 12, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Intelligent dataset slicing during microservice handshaking" was invented by Sudheesh S. Kairali (Kozhikode, India) and Ankur Tagra (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented process of intelligent dataset slicing within a network having a plurality of microservices is disclosed. Handshaking between a first microservice and a second microservice is initiated. A vertical reduction of a dataset is required by the second microservice and from the first microservice. A first slice of the dataset generated by the verti...