ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,745, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Removing retained persistent volumes for containerized applications" was invented by Wei Li (Shanghai), Xiangjun Xiao (Shanghai), Sreekanth Kozhisseri Pattath (Kerala, India), Sreeram V (Kerala, India), Sudheernath Reddy Kaipa (Andhra Pradesh, India) and Vidhya K (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A volume management server may regularly check the status of persistent volumes to determine if they have been released. A database with information about the persistent volumes may be updated to indicate a current date as the release date when a persistent v...