ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,605, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Deploying an edge cluster using pods" was invented by Minjal Agarwal (San Jose, Calif.), Abhishek Goliya (Pune, India) and Yong Wang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide a novel method for deploying an edge device as a cluster of pods. The method receives a set of criteria for deploying the edge device. The method uses the set of criteria to deploy the edge device as a set of one or more pods executing on a set of one or more nodes. The method implements, on the set of pods, a set of one or more services to perform on data me...