ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,949, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Dependable AI Inc. (Los Altos, Calif.).

"Protection of user credentials during code execution" was invented by Jiquan Ngiam (Los Altos, Calif.), Bo Zhi See (Redwood City, Calif.), Vijay Vasudevan (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Joshua Newman (Mountain View, Calif.), Jaran Charumilind (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Marc Rasi (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are presented for managing access to external resources while executing code. The method involves receiving a request to execute code and sending an identifier (ID) for the code execution and credentials for accessing an exter...