ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,032, issued on July 21, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Building a specification file using containerized layers derived from feature flags" was invented by Leigh Griffin (Waterford, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Containerized layers for a specification file used to deploy an application can be derived from feature flags. For example, a processing device can receive a request for a version of the application from a client device. The request can include a set of functionalities corresponding to a set of feature flags in a code base for the application. The processing device then can determine a set of containe...