ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,365, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"System and method for managing secure shell protocol access in cloud infrastructure environments" was invented by Jeremiah David Small (Wesford, Mass.), Alexander Chebaturkin (Seattle), Yavor Tashev (Issaquah, Wash.), Siddharth Satish Shenoy (Sammamish, Wash.), Thom Dixon (Kent, Wash.) and Xin Xu (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for creating, managing, and using SSH certificates with one or more target-specific principals are disclosed. A certificate authority receives a certificate signing request that includes both...