US Patent Issued to Red Hat on Feb. 24 for "Using OSTree native containers to customize virtual machines for lightweight application deployment" (American, Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,160, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Using OSTree native containers to customize virtual machines for lightweight application deployment" was invented by Ashley Cui (New York), Leigh Griffin (Waterford, Ireland), Stephen B. Milner (Tallahassee, Fla.), Colin G. Walters (Sudbury, Mass.) and Brent J. Baude (Harris, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of customizing virtual machines for lightweight application deployment. The method includes executing a first operating system (OS) within a virtual machine (VM) environment and a second OS outside of the VM environment. The method incl...