ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,298, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Optimization of cached persistent volumes in containerized environments" was invented by Abhilasha Pimpalgaonkar (Pune, India), Saurabh Sunil Wani (Pune, India), Abhishek Jain (Baraut, India), Shrutika Nipane (Kalyan East, India) and Deepak R. Ghuge (Ahmednagar, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Optimization of cached persistent volumes (PVs) is provided and includes receiving a first request for provisioning of a specific cached persistent volume (PV) within a first environment. The first request includes at least one specific directo...