ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,554, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Illumina Inc. (San Diego).
"Tenant-aware distributed application authentication" was invented by Milan Karangutkar (Santa Clara, Calif.), Prabhu Palanisamy (Cupertino, Calif.) and Satnam Alag (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Flexible authentication technologies customized to particular tenants of a data center network can be implemented. For example, an administrator can specify a primary authentication server and specify at which data centers different applications are to be hosted for a given tenant. End users can be shielded from the complexities of implementing such confi...