ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,877, issued on March 4.

"Container-oriented Linux kernel virtualizing system and method thereof" was invented by Song Wu (Wuhan, China), Hang Huang (Wuhan, China), Kun Wang (Wuhan, China), Honglei Wang (Wuhan, China) and Hai Jin (Wuhan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a container-oriented Linux kernel virtualizing system, at least comprising: a virtual kernel constructing module, being configured to provide a virtual kernel customization template for a user to edit and customize a virtual kernel of a container, and generate the virtual kernel taking a form of a loadable kernel module based on the...