ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,347, issued on June 17, was assigned to CONTROL PLANE Corp. (Santa Rosa Valley, Calif.).

"Cross-cloud workload identity virtualization" was invented by Doron Grinstein (Santa Rosa Valley, Calif.), Julian Vassev (Sofia Bulgaria, Bulgaria) and Dan Wilson (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for cross cloud workload identity virtualization including a program having instructions to route a first network call from a workload in a first cloud computing environment addressed to a first cloud computing environment instance metadata service (IMS) having destination data with an IP address of 169.254.169.254 to a universal...