ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,169, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Autonomous configuration-based release orchestration" was invented by Vijay Karani (Fremont, Calif.), Arunabha Ghosh (San Jose, Calif.), Firas Saltaji (Mississauga, Canada), Varun Arvind Jobanputra (New York) and Brian Whitten (Burlingame, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for autonomous configuration-based release orchestration. A first engine obtains stagger configuration data that includes an indication of container clusters in each stagger and a stagger order, selects a current stagger based on the order, and attempts to deploy ...