ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,213, issued on May 6, was assigned to SAS Institute Inc. (Cary, N.C.).

"Runtime creation of container images for event stream processing" was invented by Frederic Combaneyre (Sainte Colombe Pres Vernon, France) and Joydeep Bhattacharya (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method include creating a project package for an Event Stream Processing (ESP) project, generating a first manifest file from the project package, creating a first container pod on a cluster based on the first manifest file, executing a container file generator software and a build kit software on the first container pod, executing an ESP server ...