ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,002, issued on June 30, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Source archive optimizations for reducing container image sizes" was invented by Feng Yuan (Shanghai City, China) and Kaustubh Purandare (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, source archives may be classified, sorted, downloaded, and installed using command files for container image generation. For example, a user may select source archives for inclusion in a container build operation, and the system may classify the source archives as belonging to one of any number of classes and/or sub-classes. Where a size of the source arc...