US Patent Issued to SAP on Sept. 8 for "Secure sidecar container" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,661, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Secure sidecar container" was invented by Peter Eberlein (Malsch, Germany) and Volker Driesen (Heidelberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A secure side car (SSC) manager reads development artifacts and an application configuration file. Stubs and skeletons are created for inter-process communication between a main application and one or more SSC library containers, the stubs and skeletons based on SSC configurations specified in the application configuration file. Main application code is compiled for the main application. An application container image is c...