ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,310, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Container-image reproduction and debugging" was invented by Vincent Batts (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some examples of the present disclosure relate to container-image replication. One example includes a computing device that can generate a container image. The container image can include metadata that is consumable by a container engine for deploying a container with settings specified in the metadata. The computing device can also generate provenance data indicating at least one aspect related to the generation of the container image. The com...