ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,941, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Generating filesystem images with integrated container registries having container runtime to initiate the first container image" was invented by Pierre-Yves Chibon (Puteaux, France) and Leigh Griffin (Waterford, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device receives a filesystem image comprising a filesystem tree, a container runtime, and an on-board container registry including a plurality of container images, the on-board container registry operable to provide a container image to a requesting container runtime. The computing device is booted using ...