US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on June 24 for "Virtual machine provisioning and directory service management" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,243, issued on June 24, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Virtual machine provisioning and directory service management" was invented by Prasanna Chromepet Padmanabhan (Redmond, Wash.), Somesh Goel (Newcastle, Wash.), Jun Shi (Redmond, Wash.) and Scott Alan Manchester (Moses Lake, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method includes granting a subscriber client access to a cloud service-based resource group within a subscriber controlled computing environment. The subscriber controlled computing environment has a virtual network. A direct network connection is established via...