ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,055, issued on July 21, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Input/output processing of container application data by module addition" was invented by Kashish Bhatia (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed embodiments pertain to support input/output modules for container volumes. An input/output (I/O) request can be received from a containerized application. A container volume targeted by the I/O request can be identified. A determination is then made that the container volume is associated with one or more I/O modules based on a stored mapping of container volumes to I/O modules. Data associated with t...