ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,392, issued on July 1, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Lightweight container networking solution for resource constrained devices" was invented by Anil Kumar Vishnoi (Sacramento, Calif.) and Brent Salisbury (Frankfort, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A networking request is received from a first workload, within a first container, on an edge device. A determination is made that the destination of the networking request is a second workload, within a second container, on the edge device. In response to determining the destination of the networking request, the networking request is forwarded to the second application,...