ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,572, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Mechanism for managing bare-metal containerized applications from an embedded hypervisor" was invented by Benjamin John Corrie (Treal, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method of automatically deploying a containerized application on an operating system (OS) of a device is provided. The method generally includes booting the device with the corresponding operating system; powering on a hypervisor as a first user processing running on the OS; powering on a container engine as a second user process running on the OS; booting a virtual machine (VM) ru...