ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,507, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Cross-tenant access focus" was invented by Sucharit Sengupta (Bothell, Wash.), Ramachandra Ravitej Vennapusa (Bothell, Wash.), Hardy Wijaya (Woodinville, Wash.), Prakash Narayanan (Round Rock, Texas), Shane Anil Pereira (Bellevue, Wash.), Srikanth Shoroff (Bellevue, Wash.), Shashidhar Lanka Venkata (Sammamish, Wash.), Udaya Kumar Bhaskara (Redmond, Wash.), Abhiram Srinivasan (Coquitlam, Canada), Ashutosh Parija (Seattle) and Ananda Narayanan Pulamanthole Pisharathu (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a cloud computing environme...