US Patent Issued to CloudFit Software on Sept. 16 for "Techniques for secure transfer of container images by tracking layer transfers" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,408, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to CloudFit Software LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Techniques for secure transfer of container images by tracking layer transfers" was invented by Brian Miller (Spout Spring, Va.) and Benjamin Lawrence Heatwole (Rockingham, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some aspects, the techniques described herein relate to a system that is configured to perform operations including: generating first transfer data associated with transferring a first container image to a destination computer system, wherein the first container image is associated with a first layer and a second layer; storing first tracking da...