ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,112, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Infinera Corp..

"Distroless microservice for small footprint targets" was invented by Prashaanth Ragupathy (San Francisco), Yatindra Chugh (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Ramanujan Puranam (San Jose, Calif.) and Madhumita Pal (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are network elements for use in a transport network. The network elements may comprise an embedded device and a computing device comprising a processor and a memory storing a container runtime that when executed causes the processor to initialize a runtime base layer, initialize a plurality of containers, and provide...