ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,441, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Protection of a process of setting up a subdirectory and a network interface for a container instance" was invented by Christian Knierim (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for protecting a process of setting up a subdirectory and/or a network interface for a container instance for providing a container-based application, is provided including-generating a directory guideline which includes at least one incorporation rule for assigning the subdirectory of the container instance to the subdirectory in the source directory; and/or generating an interface guidelin...