ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,093, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Horizontally scalable system for managing container clusters" was invented by Mayank Kumar (San Francisco), Xiao Li (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Andy Chen (Daly City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, and techniques are disclosed for a horizontally scalable system for managing container clusters. A monolithic management system may perform a first task on a first level of a cloud computing server system. The monolithic management system may perform a second task on a second level of a cloud computing server system. The monolithic management sy...