ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,439, issued on March 31, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Managing a containerized service using a system manager and a deployment engine indicating an operational status of the one or more containers" was invented by Valentin Rothberg (Nieul-sur-Mer, France) and Daniel Walsh (Wells, Maine).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A containerized service can be managed using a system manager and a deployment engine. The system manager can receive a service identifier that can identify a configuration file of the containerized service. The configuration file can be used to initiate one or more containers to run the containerized s...