ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,902, issued on July 28, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Self destruction of microservices" was invented by Govinda Rajulu Nelluri (Hyderabad, India), Udaya Ramu Peethani (Hyderabad, India) and Narasimha M. Edala (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes techniques that include eliminating duplicative microservices and/or consolidating microservices, thereby reducing the number of microservices being used, and enabling a more efficient use of resources consumed by microservices. The techniques include obtaining, by a computing system, data about a plurality of microservices that...