ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,036, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Maintaining sessions information in multi-region cloud environment" was invented by Kranthi Kiran Pandiri (Redmond, Wash.), Shobhank Sharma (Kirkland, Wash.) and Girish Nagaraja (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described that enable, in a multi-region cloud environment, information regarding one or more tenancy sessions that a network access program (e.g., a browser) participates in to be efficiently stored in a centralized location. The centrally stored sessions information can then be used for various purposes ...