ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,949, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Techniques for preventing concurrent execution of declarative infrastructure provisioners" was invented by Nathaniel Martin Glass (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for preventing concurrent execution of an infrastructure orchestration service are described. Worker nodes can receive instructions, or tasks, for deploying infrastructure resources and can provide heartbeat notifications to scheduler nodes, also considered a lease. A signing proxy can track the heartbeat notifications sent from the worker nodes to the sch...