ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,459, issued on May 26, was assigned to Intuit Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Limiting cloud permissions in deployment pipelines" was invented by Thomas C. Bishop (San Diego), Brett Weaver (San Diego), Jerome M. Kuptz (Mountain View, Calif.), Paul Clata (Carlsbad, Calif.) and Edward Lee (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for selectively updating permissions associated with a cloud resource deployment are disclosed. An example method includes receiving a first request to deploy first target cloud resources based on a first specified state defined in a configuration repository, selectively updating depl...