ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,889, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Secure resource access management using stacked resource principal identities" was invented by Jeremy Allen Brown (Seattle), Jason Anthony Slepicka (Long Beach, Calif.) and Ayman Mohammed Aly Hassan Elmenshawy (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is disclosed that provides the ability for a resource residing in one tenancy of a cloud service provider infrastructure (CSPI) to use the identity of a higher-level resource upon which the resource is built to access other resources residing in another tenancy of the CSPI. The s...