ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,484, issued on April 14, was assigned to FOUNDATION OF SOONGSIL UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY COOPERATION (Seoul, South Korea).

"Docker image vulnerability inspection device and method for performing docker file analysis" was invented by Souhwan Jung (Seoul, South Korea), Thien-Phuc Doan (Seoul, South Korea) and Songi Gwak (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a docker image vulnerability inspection device, which extracts and classifies an instruction by analyzing a manifest file of a docker image, maps a file designated in the instruction to a plurality of classes, sets vulnerability of the file according to an extra...