ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,313, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Function-as-a-service platforms framework deployment with creation of pool of pre-initialized serverless function for software function services" was invented by Erez Hadad (Nahariya, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are methods and systems for providing a function as a service in a predictably timed manner, for example within a deadline or in a given frequency. A specialized executor function, namely a custom runner, is called from the function service using a wrapper function on the framework controller. The process...