ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,281, issued on April 21, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"System and method for optimized retention of container images in a cloud server" was invented by Shailendra Singh (Maharashtra, India) and Saurabh Gupta (New Delhi).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the invention relate to systems, methods, and computer program products for optimized retention of container images in a cloud server, the invention including: identifying a plurality of container images, where the plurality of container images is stored in the cloud server; generating a non-fungible token (NFT) associated with each container im...