US Patent Issued to Red Hat on Aug. 19 for "Eavesdropper identification and container image layer invalidation" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,325, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Eavesdropper identification and container image layer invalidation" was invented by Leigh Griffin (Waterford, Ireland) and Stephen Coady (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is determined that a container image comprising a plurality of container image layers generated by a container build engine is to be transmitted from a container image repository to a target computing device. It is determined that a first container image layer of the plurality of container image layers is a sensitive container image layer to be encrypted prior to transmission to the targe...