ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,964, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).
"Artifact management infrastructure" was invented by Florian Mueller (Speyer, Germany) and Rico Ruszewski (Dresden, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, a system, and computer program product for managing container artifacts are provided. An artifact including a container image is received. Validation rules for performing a validation of the artifact are retrieved. Metadata is extracted from the artifact for performing the validation of the artifact. Validation of the artifact is performed by processing the container image using the validation rules and t...