ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,087, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Mastercard International Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).
"Semi-declarative method for infrastructure deployment and access control" was invented by Thomas Hansen (San Francisco) and Nicholas Shumeyko (Arlington, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system includes a processor and a memory device. The computer system is configured to execute a function that builds a software instance definition object. The software instance definition object includes one or more configuration items, attributes, permissions, and linkages to other objects, which define a software instance. The computer system te...