ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,879, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Restricted operations due to attachment of compute instances owned by different tenancies" was invented by A M Helali Mortuza Bhuiyan (Redmond, Wash.), Girish Nagaraja (Sammamish, Wash.), Jyotishman Nag (Chicago) and Sahitya Gollapudi (Newark, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for restricting operations between two attached two compute instances. An infrastructure and a generalized method is described for attaching two or more cloud resources (e.g., two compute instances) in spite of the compute resources being pro...