ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,245, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Container image tooling storage migration" was invented by Paolo Antinori (Milan), Rishab Prasad (Bangalore, India) and Leigh Griffin (Waterford, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Container image tooling storage migration is generally described. In some examples, a first pull operation for a first container image may be performed. The first container image may be generated using a first container management tool. In various cases, a first binary representation of the first container image may be read. The first binary representation may be associated with the...