US Patent Issued to VMware on June 16 for "System to support native storage of a container image on a host operating system for a container running in a virtual machine" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,167, issued on June 16, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"System to support native storage of a container image on a host operating system for a container running in a virtual machine" was invented by Junfei Wu (Beijing) and Xiaodong Ye (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are a system and method for forming a container image. The system and method include obtaining a first layer of a plurality of layers of the container image. The contents of the first layer are stored in a directory such that a first disk image layer file is mounted to the directory. A second layer of the plurality of layers is ob...