ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,686, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Execution of services in distributed computing environments using initial random access memory disk schemes" was invented by Leigh Griffin (Waterford, Ireland) and Eric Curtin (Charleville, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Services can be executed on nodes using initial random access memory disk (initrd) schemes. For example, a system can receive, from an orchestrator node, a request to execute a service at a host node. The request can include data indicative of the service, and the host node can include an initrd scheme. The system can determine that the se...