ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,603, issued on May 27, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Remote command access in a hybrid cloud to on-premises devices" was invented by Faraz H. Qadri (Redmond, Wash.), Aniket A. Malatpure (Redmond, Wash.), Swapnil T. Ashtekar (Redmond, Wash.), Greeshma Vijayakumar (Issaquah, Wash.), Shireen Anvarhusein Isab (San Francisco), Mohit Kumar Garg (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Phani Prakash Boppana (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Trivikram Somisetty (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for remote command access in a hybrid cloud to on-premises devices are described. An example method incl...