US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 15 for "Recovering layers of a container" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,259, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Recovering layers of a container" was invented by Xiao Ling Chen (Beijing), Si Yu Chen (Beijing), Wen Ji Huang (Beijing), Hao Wu (Beijing) and Wen Qi WQ Ye (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples described herein provide a computer-implemented method that includes downloading a container image from an image repository. The method further includes deploying the container image as a container at a local graph. The method further includes identifying an image layer of the container image of the container as having a patch in error. ...