US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on Sept. 9 for "Mutual authentication between clusters" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,427, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Mutual authentication between clusters" was invented by Alex John Hockey (London) and James Warren Turner (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of processing traffic to provide a service is described. A first service mesh in a first cluster is used to ensure traffic is communicated within the first cluster using a secure communications protocol with mutual authentication accomplished using a certificate chain having a root certificate. A client in the first cluster originates traffic to a second cluster for processing, the second ...