US Patent Issued to Oracle International on Dec. 9 for "Issuing surrogate credentials for accessing target resources" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,901, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Issuing surrogate credentials for accessing target resources" was invented by Thomas James Andrews (Seattle) and Girish Nagaraja (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system grants access for a computing entity to execute a requested operation upon a target resource based on a set of one or more access policies associated with a different computing entity. The access control service receives a surrogate access request from a first computing entity. The surrogate access request represents a request for the first computing entity to...