ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,435, issued on July 7, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Intent based container image building" was invented by Zhan Peng Huo (Beijing), Yu Zui You (Ningbo, China), Wen Ji Huang (Beijing), Xiao Ling Chen (Changping District, China) and Heng Wang (Changping District, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The method computer program products, and systems can include, for instance: performing natural language processing to process a text string of a user, wherein the text string specifies characteristics of a container image to be built; pr...