ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,752, issued on June 3, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Freedom from interference using containers" was invented by Alexander Larsson (Stockholm), Pierre-Yves Chibon (Puteaux, France) and Daniel Walsh (Augusta, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device executing a kernel-based operating system, during a boot process of the operating system, can start a first system and service manager that is configured to start processes from unit files stored in a predetermined directory on a first root volume. The computing device can start, by the first system and service manager, a process from a first unit file that cau...