US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Dec. 9 for "Tenant-controlled cloud updates" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,483, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Tenant-controlled cloud updates" was invented by Jiaxing Zhang (Beijing), Thomas Moscibroda (Beijing), Haoran Wang (Shanghai), Jurgen Aubrey Willis (Woodinville, Wash.), Yang Chen (Beijing), Ying Yan (Beijing), James E. Johnson (Bellevue, Wash.) and Ajay Mani (Woodinville, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are taught for providing customers of a cloud computing service to control when updates affect the services provided to the customers. Because multiple customers share the cloud's infrastructure, each customer may have...