ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,842, issued on March 25.

"Integration packaging for a multi-tenant computing environment" was invented by Mohamed Elsherif (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-tenant authentication system facilitates packaging and installing of integrations for authentication services of system tenants. The integrations include cloud resources of one or more cloud services. In order to package an integration, the multi-tenant authentication system retrieves resource manifests for cloud resources from corresponding cloud services. The multi-tenant authentication system generates the resource manifests to describe the cloud resour...