US Patent Issued to Red Hat on Feb. 17 for "Separating application programming interfaces into containers to facilitate safety assurance" (Irish, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,558, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Separating application programming interfaces into containers to facilitate safety assurance" was invented by Leigh Griffin (Waterford, Ireland) and Pierre-Yves Chibon (Saint Pol-de-Leon, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Application programming interfaces (APIs) of a software package can be separated into containers to facilitate safety assurance through isolation. For example, a computing system can receive an application request associated with the software package. The software package can include a first set of APIs that is compliant with a safety thresho...