ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,984, issued on May 6, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"User authentication and authorization for containers" was invented by A Ashok Kumar Reddy (Bangalore, India), Vimal Krishna (Bengaluru, India) and Balaguru Veerappan (Coimbatore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example methodology includes, by a container hosted on a computing device, receiving a request to access the container, the request including a temporary username and password and an access group to which a user associated with the request belongs. The method also includes, by the container, creating a temporary user credentials based on the t...