ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,487, issued on Sept. 8.

"Methods and systems for securing containerized applications" was invented by William Rodgers Ackerly (Washington), Julian Embry Herwitz (Arlington, Va.) and Timothy Robert Tschampel (Reston, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for securing data access by containerized applications includes intercepting, by a first container executing on a first computing device and associated with a containerized application in a second container executing on the first computing device, a first Internet Protocol (IP) request from the containerized application. The first container determines that the IP request is addr...