ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,910, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Migration of user authentication from on-premise to the cloud" was invented by Luis Carlos Leon Plata (Seattle), Rama Mohan Rao Dintakurthi (Redmond, Wash.), Xin Yu Chong (Seattle), Sushant Choudhary (Lynnwood, Wash.), Ramiro Calderon Romero (Monroe, Wash.) and David Alan Gregory (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to examples, an apparatus may include a processor and a memory on which is stored machine-readable instructions that when executed by the processor, may cause the processor to identify configuration informati...