ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,668, issued on March 3, was assigned to Rafay Systems Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"System and method for application orchestration, observation, and fault remediation" was invented by Bheema Sarat Chandra Kaki (San Francisco), Stephan Benny (Pleasanton, Calif.), Hanumantha Rao Kavuluru (San Jose, Calif.) and Haseeb Siddique Budhani (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method to manage a distributed computing machine comprising: configuring a cluster to provide compute and memory resources to run one or more containers that include computer program code to perform operations of the distributed computing machine; configur...