US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on April 22 for "Representing container images in an image registry" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,460, issued on April 22, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Representing container images in an image registry" was invented by Francis McNamee (Newry, Great Britain), Paula May Tomaszko (Belfast, Great Britain), Andrew Jack Bell (Belfast, Great Britain) and Robert Kerr (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, system, and computer program product are provided. A processor defines and stores units of image data of a container image, where the units of image data are compressible. A processor represents the units as nodes in a dependency graph for a conta...