ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,613, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Provisioning images to deploy containerized workloads in a virtualized environment" was invented by Krishna Chaitanya Bandi (Pflugerville, Texas), Rohith Jagannathan (Palo Alto, Calif.), Adrian Drzewiecki (Mountain View, Calif.) and Abhishek Srivastava (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for provisioning images to deploy containerized workloads in a virtualized environment can include bringing up a containerized workload in a virtualized computing environment responsive to receiving a request to run a containerized workload in the vi...