US Patent Issued to Ab Initio Technology on May 20 for "Dynamic distribution of container images" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,262, issued on May 20, was assigned to Ab Initio Technology LLC (Lexington, Mass.).

"Dynamic distribution of container images" was invented by Frank Lynch (Lexington, Mass.) and Tim Wakeling (Andover, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method implemented by a data processing system including: accessing the container image that includes the first application and a second application; determining, by the data processing system, the number of parallel executions of the given module of the first application; for the given module, generating a plurality of instances of the container image in accordance with the number of parallel exec...