ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,947, issued on May 12, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Isolated runtime environments for securing secrets used to access remote resources from compute instances" was invented by Joshua Benjamin Levinson (Seattle), Colm MacCarthaigh (Seattle), Alexander Graf (Nuremberg, Germany), Iulia-Daniela Doras-Prodan (Bucharest, Romania) and Petre Eftime (Buchare, Romania).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An instance secrets management isolated runtime environment is launched at a virtualization server, and utilizes a subset of memory assigned to a compute instance. The subset of memory is inaccessible from entities external to ...