ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,006, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Compartment level binding for workload identity" was invented by Jacob M. Lindholm (Londonderry, N.H.), Joshua Aaron Horwitz (Centreville, Va.), Abhinav Mishra (Livermore, Calif.) and Karl Halley Heiss (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for mapping a namespace to a compartment. An example method includes receiving, by a manager instance and from a pod, a first request for a token. The manager instance can transmit, to a token issuance service, a second request for the token. The token issuance service can id...