ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,156, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Managing containers across multiple operating systems" was invented by Raymond Strode (Westford, Mass.), Alexander Larsson (Stockholm), Matthias Clasen (Westford, Mass.) and Debarshi Ray (Brno, Czech Republic).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure provide for mechanisms for managing containers across operating systems in a computer system. A method of the disclosure includes: causing a first container management agent in a first container to run a user interface in the first container, receiving a user request to create a copy of the first cont...