ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,907, issued on June 23, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).
"Multi-level authentication for accessing cloud resources" was invented by Girish Nagaraja (Seattle), Vineet Sarda (Seattle), Choon Chea Chua (Seattle), Prashanth Adhikari (Bellevue, Wash.) and Ankush Gupta (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for a multi-level authentication within a cloud environment are disclosed. A first authentication request is received by an identity and access management (IAM) service from a device associated with a user. The first request is to authenticate the user for accessing one or more cloud resou...