US Patent Issued to Oracle International on July 29 for "Secure instance metadata as cryptographic identity" (Washington, Kentucky Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,460, issued on July 29, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Secure instance metadata as cryptographic identity" was invented by Anthony Long (Edmonds, Wash.), Brady Turner (Crestview Hills, Ky.), Mina Anes (Bothell, Wash.), Mauruthi Geetha Mohan (Seattle), Adam Franklin Wilford (Lexington, Ky.), Bill Chau (Sammamish, Wash.), Timothy Kraus (Lexington, Ky.) and David Dale Becker (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include transmitting a request for metadata associated with a compute instance and receiving, by a computing system, metadata associated with the compute instance signed with...