ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,889, issued on July 28, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Management and orchestration of microservices" was invented by Jayanta Poddar (Bangalore, India), Prodosh Kumar Mohanty (Bangalore, India), Nikhil Bhavadas Kaplingat (Karnataka, India), Dhivya Mohanasundaram (Nagapattinam, India), Venkat Thangella (Nalgonda, India) and Vineeth Kumar Chalil Karinta (Apex, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for microservices management and orchestration. A chart package is selectively retrieved from a chart repository based upon the chart package corresponding to a set of services to host within a cluster ...