ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,289, issued on June 17, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Amork, N.Y.).

"Container image optimization for a selected deployment environment" was invented by Ashok Pon Kumar Sree Prakash (Bangalore, India), Padmanabha Venkatagiri Seshadri (Mysore, India), Harikrishnan Balagopal (Thrissur, India) and Akash Nayak (Raipur, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Container image optimization is provided for a deployment environment. An indication of a plurality of container images to be deployed in a deployment to provide a plurality of services within a computing environment is obtained. The plurality of container image...