US Patent Issued to Oracle International on May 27 for "Applications as resource principals or service principals" (Texas, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,762, issued on May 27, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Applications as resource principals or service principals" was invented by Gregg Alan Wilson (Austin, Texas), Ayman Mohammed Aly Hassan Elmenshawy (Bellevue, Wash.), Girish Nagaraja (Sammamish, Wash.), Venkata Rama Prasad Tammana (Redmond, Wash.) and Gary Philip Cole (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for granting an application of a first type of identity system, which uses a first type of identity token, access to a second type of identity system, which uses a second type of identity token. An application ...