ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,454, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"On-demand unikernel for application protection" was invented by Leigh Griffin (Waterford, Ireland), Luigi Mario Zuccarelli (Milan) and Sherine Khoury (Puteaux, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for using unikernels to protect critical safety applications from interference events. For each of a set of applications identified as critical to the functioning of a computing environment, a corresponding unikernel may be generated, the unikernel including code of the application and kernel functional...