ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,689, issued on July 1, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).
"Dynamic container layer switching" was invented by Leigh Griffin (Waterford, Ireland) and Stephen Coady (Waterford, Ireland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for dynamically switching layers of a container image for adapting performance to a computing environment. The method includes receiving a request to generate a container image including a plurality of unique layers. The method includes determining a set of optional layers for each unique layer of the container image based on a plurality of tags associated with the container image. The method i...