ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,107, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Deploying application containers of a distributed service" was invented by Anila Kumar Garimella (Milpitas, Calif.) and Hemanth Siddulugari (Dublin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed relating to deploying application containers. A computer system may receive a request to deploy an application container onto resources of a target environment such that program code of the application container is executed. The deployment of the application container may be carried out in a mode in which the computer system does not allocate resources ...