ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,015, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Virtual environment type validation for policy enforcement" was invented by Tushar Suresh Sugandhi (Redmond, Wash.), Amber Tianqi Guo (Seattle), Balaji Balasubramanyan (Redmond, Wash.), Abhijat Singh (Sammamish, Wash.), Ahmed Saruhan Karademir (Seattle), Benjamin M. Schultz (Bellevue, Wash.), Hari R. Pulapaka (Redmond, Wash.), Gupta Shubham (Sammamish, Wash.), Chase Thomas (Kirkland, Wash.) and Carlos Ernesto Peza Ramirez (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Environment type validation can provide a tamper-resistant validation of the...