ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,049, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Confluent Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Docker image registry synchronization service" was invented by Greg Hensley (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of synchronizing container image lists is provided. A first container image list having first container images is accessed from a remote source. The first container images listed in the first container image list include a first tag and a first digest. A second container image list having second container images is accessed from a cloud-computing system registry. The second container images listed in the second container image list i...