ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,960, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"End-to-end context isolation across microservices in a multi-tenant distributed cloud infrastructure" was invented by Suyin Liu (Suzhou, China), Jie Liu (Bellevue, Wash.), Na Li (Bellevue, Wash.), Yizhong Wu (Shanghai), Chuanbo Zhang (Suzhou, China), Xiangyi Deng (Suzhou, China), Yiteng Yu (Shanghai), Yu Zhang (Suzhou, China), Yu Xia (Suzhou, China) and Jonathan Shi (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to a context enforcement system that efficiently and securely protects tenant context information that trav...