ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,914, issued on March 18, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Container orchestration framework aware port scanning" was invented by Olgierd Stanislaw Pieczul (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scanner service can be configured to scan one or more nodes associated with a container management service. The container management service can be configured to manage a set of services by allocating managed containers associated with the set of services to the one or more nodes. The scanner service can be configured to identify vulnerabilities of processes running on the one or more nodes. The vulnerab...