ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,455, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Micro Focus LLC (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Container based generation of inputs for generic functions" was invented by Markus Rainer Von Der Heiden (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to examples, an apparatus may include a processor and a memory on which are stored machine-readable instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to create a container in a container runtime environment. The container may include a plurality of generic functions for installation of an application on a computing device. The processor may receive configuration information correl...