ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,446, issued on Oct. 14.

"Techniques for unifying multiple identity clouds" was invented by Karl McGuinness (Oakland, Calif.) and Matias Woloski (Punta del Este, Uruguay).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for unifying multiple identity clouds are described. A software platform may receive a first request from a first user to build an authorization model for a resource using a first cloud platform. The authorization model may identify parameters associated with accessing the resource. The software platform may receive, from the first user, a second request to integrate the resource with a second cloud platform...