ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,585, issued on May 6, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Techniques for automatically configuring minimal cloud service access rights for container applications" was invented by Olgierd Stanislaw Pieczul (Dublin), Hubert Alexander Foskett (Sammamish, Wash.) and Robert Graham Clark (Clyde Hill, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system may receive one or more requests for access to one or more cloud services and may store the one or more requests in a request log. The computer system may receive one or more access rules applicable to cloud service access rights. The computer system may a...