US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Oct. 6 for "Efficient container packing in host nodes" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,764, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Efficient container packing in host nodes" was invented by Gabriel Zvi BenHanokh (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Orit Wasserman (Mitzpe Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Host node container packing is provided. A minimum number of host nodes in a container orchestration environment that satisfies software resource dependencies of each respective container is determined using a dependency graph based on a group of containers that each respective host node of the minimum number of host nodes can run using shared software resources. Each respec...