ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,218,942, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatus for automatic configuration of a containerized computing namespace" was invented by Miroslav Shipkovenski (Sofia, Bulgaria), Stanislav Asenov Hadjiiski (Sofia, Bulgaria) and Georgi Muleshkov (Sofia, Bulgaria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture for automatic configuration of a containerized computing namespace are disclosed. An example method includes identifying, in response to creation of a containerized computing namespace, a user account that is to be granted access to a containerized comp...