ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,523, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Enhancing container security by performing container vulnerability reduction based on static and dynamic analysis of dynamically loaded symbols and system call blocking" was invented by Azzedine Benameur (Fairfax, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for enhancing container security are provided by reducing the attack surface. In one example, the exposure of containers to potential security vulnerabilities is reduced by identifying dynamically loaded symbols by an application via performance of static symbol analysis by examining a section of...