ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,701, issued on May 12, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Providing self-managed operators" was invented by Yan Fen Guo (Beijing), Chao Feng Wu (Beijing), Hui Huang (Beijing), Song Bai (Beijing), Xiang Cai (Beijing), Xiao Jian Lian (Beijing) and Leela Prasad Chitta (Dublin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Self-managed operators is provided. A set of sub-operators that a main operator depends on is selected from a plurality of predefined sub-operators based on an analysis of a new version of a custom resource definition in response to determining that a current version of the main operator does...