US Patent Issued to Anyscale on July 1 for "Optimizing container startup performance using block layer storage" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,703, issued on July 1, was assigned to Anyscale Inc. (San Francisco).

"Optimizing container startup performance using block layer storage" was invented by Thomas Desrosiers (Berkeley, Calif.), Philipp Moritz (San Francisco), Hsuan-Chi Kuo (San Lorenzo, Calif.) and Lanbo Chen (Burlingame, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, device, and system for starting containers is provided. The method includes (i) in response to determining to start a container, determining whether a container layer for the container has been previously converted to a block storage format; (ii) in response to determining that the container layer has no...