ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,906, issued on July 28, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Yuseong-gu, South Korea).

"Container management device and storage medium storing container management program" was invented by Chunghan Lee (Chiyoda-ku, Japan), Byoungkwon Choi (Daejeon, South Korea), Jinwoo Park (Daejeon, South Korea) and Dongsu Han (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A container management device including a processor, wherein the processor is configured to acquire, for a service including interconnected respective microservices installed with containers for executing...