ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,053, issued on April 29, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Automatic container specification file creation and update for a codebase" was invented by Gabriele Picco (Dublin), Vasileios Vasileiadis (Dublin), Thanh Lam Hoang (Maynooth, Ireland), Natalia Mulligan (Dublin) and Inge Lise Vejsbjerg (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments for providing an enhanced codebase in a computing environment by a processor. One or more container specification files may be automatically updated with one or more changes to a codebase."

The patent was filed on March 31, 2022, under Application No. 17/657,...