US Patent Issued to Google on March 17 for "Systems and methods for vulnerability scanning of dependencies in containers" (American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,280, issued on March 17, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for vulnerability scanning of dependencies in containers" was invented by Sebastian Lekies (Zurich, Switzerland) and Yousef Alowayed (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes identifying, by a processing device, a set of parameters to generate a container image for a container. The parameters comprise one or more dependencies associated with running the container in a cloud-based environment. A manifest file referencing the one or more dependencies is obtained and the container image is generated based on the set of par...