ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,304, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Adaptive protection mechanisms loop" was invented by Erin K. Miyake (Seattle), Bhavanesh Rengarajan (Sammamish, Wash.), Tanay Baldua (Mumbai, India), Talhah Munawar Mir (Bothell, Wash.), Rudra Mitra (Yarrow Point, Wash.), Apsara Karen Selvanayagam (London), John Alphonse (Redmond, Wash.), Ethan Max Stakoff (Seattle), Jiajun Zhang (Bellevue, Wash.), Sizhe Zheng (West Lafayette, Ind.), Ruben Eugenio Cantu Vota (Seattle), Kun Yao (Bellevue, Wash.), Xin Liu (Mercer Island, Wash.), Maithili Dandige (Kirkland, Wash.) and Hubert Dushime (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released b...