ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,963, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).
"Standardized format for containerized applications" was invented by Joachim Fitzer (Schriesheim, Germany), Pietro Francesco Menna Ruiz Diaz (Sao Leopoldo, Brazil), Felipe Musse (Porto Alegre, Brazil) and Simon Seif (Ostringen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A file is created in a standardized format that defines a type of a containerized application and includes information for deployment of the containerized application. A single parser of the standardized format is thus enabled to deploy different types of containerized applications. The standardized file fo...