ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,537, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Managing container images" was invented by Qi Feng Huo (Beijing), Da Li Liu (Beijing), Yuan Yuan Wang (Beijing), Yan Song Liu (Beijing) and Lei Li (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Managing container images is provided. A number of a set of changed files included in a plurality of upgraded files is determined in response to identifying the set of changed files. It is determined whether the number of the set of changed files included in the plurality of upgraded files is greater than a defined file change threshold level. In response t...