US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Nov. 18 for "Multi-variant image container with optional tagging" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,910, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Multi-variant image container with optional tagging" was invented by Amar Shah (Pune, India), Akash Chandra (Bengaluru, India) and Prashant Farkya (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation may include one or more of receiving a request to build an instance of a container image that comprises a plurality of image layers, wherein the request comprises a tag identifier, creating the container image comprising the plurality of image layers, identifying a subset of image layers from among the plurality of image layers...