ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,817, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (Tokyo).

"Container resource designing device, container resource designing method, and program" was invented by Masazumi Ota (Musashino, Japan) and Makoto Hamada (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A master node, which is a container resource design device, includes: a container setting reception unit configured to acquire definition information including a replica set count indicating a number of redundancies of a pod, an affinity rule indicating a condition for starting up containers, and a failure tolerance count; a resource calculation unit...