ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,998, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Managing runtime operation privileges of privileged containers in real time" was invented by Yu Zui You (Ningbo, China), Zhan Peng Huo (Beijing), Xiao Ling Chen (Beijing) and Heng Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Managing container privileges is provided. It is determined whether a result of comparing a request for an operation privilege to perform a privileged operation by a privileged container against privilege approval rules is an approval of the request. In response to determining that the result of comparing the request for ...