ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,146, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Filtering sensitive data in cloud native application logs" was invented by Da Li Liu (Beijing), Qi Feng Huo (Beijing), Lei Li (Beijing), Yuan Yuan Wang (Beijing) and Yan Song Liu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method to limit access to sensitive information by filtering log files. The method includes deploying a first pod on a node of a cloud computing system, where the first pod includes a first container configured to run an application. The method also includes generating a first log file for the first conta...