US Patent Issued to Oracle International on Feb. 24 for "Authentication mechanisms in a container orchestration system" (American, Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,034, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Authentication mechanisms in a container orchestration system" was invented by Joshua Horwitz (Centreville, Va.), Srinidhi Chokkadi Puranik (San Jose, Calif.) and Olgierd Pieczul (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for a container orchestration system are disclosed. A container orchestration API server receives a request from a virtual agent in a container orchestration cluster that includes a cloud provider authentication token. The request is generated by the virtual agent using a resource principal that corresponds to the vi...