ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,242, issued on April 14, was assigned to VMware Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Optimized system design for deploying and managing containerized workloads at scale" was invented by Erol Aygar (Boston), Nikhil Deshpande (Palo Alto, Calif.), Benjamin John Corrie (Bellevue, Wash.), George Gregory Hicken (San Francisco) and Elliott Davis (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method of automatically deploying a containerized workload on a hypervisor based device is provided. The method generally includes booting the device running a hypervisor, in response to booting the device: automatically obtaining, by the device, o...