ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,921, issued on May 20, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Authorization between integrated cloud products using association" was invented by Mauruthi Geetha Mohan (Seattle), Anthony Long (Edmonds, Wash.), Mina Michel Gorgy Anes (Bothell, Wash.), Sanjeeb Kumar Sahoo (Pleasanton, Calif.), Yingyu Yang (Bellevue, Wash.), Bakhtiyar Uddin (Leander, Texas) and Thomas James Andrews (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques described herein relate to authorization between integrated cloud products. An example includes receiving, by a computing device and from a first resource, a first request for pe...