US Patent Issued to Palantir Technologies on Sept. 30 for "System and methods for using container layers to facilitate cloud resource sharing and decrease startup times" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,114, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Palantir Technologies Inc. (Denver).

"System and methods for using container layers to facilitate cloud resource sharing and decrease startup times" was invented by John Mathews (Austin, Texas) and Nicholas Gates (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A package manager used with a containerization platform can organize code portions into immutable layers. Collections of layers can be organized and saved together as an executable unit. Disclosed solutions recognize that because layers do not change, they can be reused by the same user and can also serve as shared building blocks for multiple e...