ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,172, issued on April 7, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Identity sharded cache for the data plane data" was invented by Venkata Rama Prasad Tammana (Redmond, Wash.), Kedar Nitin Mishra (Sammamish, Wash.), Matthew Hoover (Seattle), Girish Nagaraja (Sammamish, Wash.) and Arsalan Ahmad (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some aspects, an authentication service may divide authentication data into one or more data stripes, the authentication data including at least one of: user identifier (userID); group identifier (groupID); group membership; client identifier (clientID); dynamic group ...