ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,204, issued on May 6, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Collecting diagnostic information from a failed container" was invented by Shefali Kulkarni (S Kodagu, India), Vimal Krishna (Bangalore, India) and Amit Kumar Karira (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A diagnostics collection script is included in a container image. When an original instance of the container fails, a new instance of the container is started using the container image using a Docker compose YAML file having the diagnostics collection script as an entrypoint. The diagnostics collection script is configured to collect the logs of th...