ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,883, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Region-based security policies for cloud resources" was invented by Ramarathnam Venkatesan (Redmond, Wash.), Nishanth Chandran (Bangalore, India), Srinath T. V. Setty (Redmond, Wash.), Christoph Berlin (Bellevue, Wash.), Ulrich Homann (Kirkland, Wash.) and Michael James Zwilling (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An entity is enabled to access encrypted resources in response to verifying access criteria of a region-based security policy is met. For example, a resource request to access an encrypted resource is received from an ent...