ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,409, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Nutanix Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Extending a security perimeter into a tenant-specific public cloud partition" was invented by Arindam Mukherjee (Pune, India), Nitin Parab (Palo Alto, Calif.), Shrikant Janardhan Jadhav (Pune, India) and Sunil Khushal Patil (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer program products for executing trusted software components in public computing clouds. Verifiably authentic software components are installed into a tenant partition of a multi-tenant public cloud-based environment. To do so, a software component installer is configu...