ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,213, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Secure reuse of cloud at customer hardware" was invented by Jennifer Bus (Mountlake Terrace, Wash.) and Jaime Ismael Rangel Martinez (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques in this disclosure include polling statuses of one or more assets with one or more messages signed by a device private key. The statuses can be polled by a computing device. The techniques can include receiving one or more replies from the one or more assets. A reply can be signed with an asset private key and the reply can contain an asset status. The computin...