ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,213, issued on April 15, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Method and device for securely starting up a container instance" was invented by Christian Peter Feist (Munich) and Christian Knierim (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for securely starting up a container instance in one or more execution environments for one or more components of a technical installation, such an execution environment being designed to execute the container instance includes the following method steps: a) providing a configurable check function that is performed before and/or while starting up the container instance, b) logging each step for...