ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,080, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Controlling container commands issued in a distributed computing environment" was invented by Khushboo Sancheti (Mountain View, Calif.), Mandar Darwatkar (Mountain View, Calif.), James Scott (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Hoo In Song (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one example described herein a system can intercept, using a webhook, a container command issued to a user interface of a container orchestration platform. In response to intercepting the container command, the system can determine that the container command violates a security policy. In re...