ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,983, issued on March 17, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Polymorphic unikernal factory for node management" was invented by Luigi Mario Zuccarelli (Dublin) and Leigh Griffin (Waterford, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides new and innovative systems and methods for managing nodes using polymorphic unikernals. In an example, a method includes generating, by a polymorphic unikernal service (PUS) system having a processor, a virtual machine. A generic unikernal may be created, retrieved, and/or embedded within the virtual machine. The PUS system may receive, from an Internet of Things (I...