ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,871, issued on April 14, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Access orchestration engine in a cloud access management system" was invented by Zachary Cole Willson (Redmond, Wash.), Prasanna Chromepet Padmanabhan (Redmond, Wash.), Gaurav Raghu Dhawan (Seattle), Yizhong Wu (Shanghai), Ivaylo Detelinov Ivanov (Redmond, Wash.), Purna Venkata S Bodapati (Bothell, Wash.), Suyin Liu (Suzhou, China), Wensheng Xu (Suzhou, China), Alexis Jade Lambert (Apopka, Fla.), William Lee Wayne Weston (Snoqualmie, Wash.), Somesh Goel (Newcastle, Wash.) and Sandeep Patnaik (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "...