ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,989, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).
"Software containers" was invented by Trey Elliott (Spring, Texas), Thomas Flynn (Spring, Texas) and Srivatsan Mani (Spring, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example system may include a processor and a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium storing instructions executable by the processor to validate a software container, stored on a hardware controller embedded in a computing device, utilizing an encryption mechanism specific to the computing device; insert an instance of the software container, responsive to a successful vali...