ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,756, issued on July 15, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).
"Automatic generation of container images" was invented by Stuart Douglas (Canberra, Australia) and Marek Goldman (Warsaw, Poland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for generating container images are described. An image tag comprising a set of code names is received at a virtual image server, wherein the virtual image server comprises a mapping of each code name of the set of code names to a corresponding image file. For each of the set of code names, a corresponding image file is retrieved from an image registry and an image manifest is generated ...