US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on Dec. 9 for "End to end artifact trust in cloud environments" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,031, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"End to end artifact trust in cloud environments" was invented by Tobias D.F. Weisserth (Redmond, Wash.), Qiming Chen (Seattle) and Sohail A. Hirani (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for providing end-to-end content trust for artifact types managed by a service provider, regardless of where or how the artifacts are deployed or applied in a target environment. The described trust mechanism is agnostic to the specific type of artifact and where the artifact is being applied from within a cloud environment." ...