ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,962, issued on July 14, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Dedicated secure entry points for accessing target resources" was invented by Jivan Joseph Madtha (Saratoga, Calif.), Emily Lam (Irvine, Calif.) and Payton Quinn (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system identifies a secure entry point for accessing a target resource of a virtual cloud network. The system determines a mapping that maps the secure entry point to a particular addressable network entity of a plurality of addressable network entities. Based on the mapping, the system selects the particular addressable network entity as a ...