US Patent Issued to Oracle International on Aug. 11 for "Initializing a container environment" (Virginia, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,801, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Initializing a container environment" was invented by Trung Hoai Nguyen (Cedar Park, Texas) and Joshua Aaron Horwitz (Centreville, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for creating a container environment that implements direct communications between pods. This includes the creation of a management component (such as a control plane) of the container environment, the creation of nodes within an implementation component (such as a data plane) of the container environment, and the attaching of virtualized network interfa...