ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,728, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Serverless infrastructure" was invented by Gang Pu (ShannXi, China), Jin Chi He (Xian, China), Hui Yu (Xi'an, China), Yi Yang Hh Huang (Xian, China) and Jin Tang Cheng (Xi'an, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments receive a plurality of incoming requests, determine that the plurality of incoming requests comprise a plurality of instant requests, create a software image based on the instant requests, and pull the software image based on a deployed configuration."

The patent was filed on Sept. 11, 2023, under Application No. 18/244,...