ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,460, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Automated governance policy-based security for a cloud native application" was invented by Tamer Salman (Haifa, Israel) and Fady Copty (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described herein that are capable of providing automated governance policy-based security for a cloud native application. Recently unused security misconfigurations of a cloud native application are identified. A first configuration change that resolves a first recently unused security misconfiguration is automatically implemented as a result of the...