ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,735, issued on July 8, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Interposing service mesh" was invented by Andrew Munro Caldwell (Enfield, Great Britain), Jack Philip Rickard (Enfield, Great Britain) and Alex John Hockey (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of establishing a secure connection between a first application running in a first computing environment and a second application running in a second computing environment using a service mesh that: interposes a connection forming request from the first application; and establishes the secure connection in response to the ...