ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,101, issued on June 10, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Generating streams of disk image files usable for deploying software in computing environments" was invented by Nicholas Carboni (Trenton, N.J.), Ronnie Lazar (Ra'anana, Israel) and Avishay Traeger (Ra'anana, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Streams of disk image files usable for deploying software in computing environments can be generated according to some examples. In one example, a system can receive, from a client device, a request for a disk image file. The system can determine, based on the request, a base image file and a customized file that are comb...