ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,387, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Workload identity resource principle" was invented by Jacob M. Lindholm (Londonderry, N.H.) and Joshua Aaron Horwitz (Centreville, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described herein for authenticating a pod. A method can include a manager instance receiving a first request for a first token to access a computing resource. The manager instance can determine an identity of the service account and generate a second request for the first token based at least in part on the authentication. The manager instance can transmit the sec...