US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on June 23 for "Secure platform for test and infrastructure management" (Washington, Virginia, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,890, issued on June 23, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Secure platform for test and infrastructure management" was invented by Alexander Stephen Tomlin (Kirkland, Wash.), Joshua Daniel Baugher (Warrenton, Va.), Alexander Stephen Thielman (Seattle), Matthew Dean Sievers (Redmond, Wash.) and Larry Darnell Wilcher II (Dacula, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A virtual machine (VM) test instance is created in a virtual machine scale set. When the VM test instance is created, a unique set of credentials is also created corresponding to the VM test instance. The unique set of credentials is stored i...