ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,489, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Inserting and replacing placeholders in resource code" was invented by Lakshmi Prasad (Kozhikode, India), Meir Baruch Blachman (Jerusalem) and Eitam Meisel (Ra'anana, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Placeholders are inserted and replaced in placeholders in code included in resources. A proxy receives a request for a resource from a client and verifies an authentication credential included therein. The proxy determines a placeholder value indicating the authentication credential is verified and determines the requested resource corres...