ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,076, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Provisioning hosts with operator accounts for use by clients to access target resources" was invented by Doug Chivers (Hereford, Great Britain), Jeremiah David Small (Wesford, Mass.) and Matias Brutti (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a host network entity associated with a computing network. The host network entity may establish a first connection with a client network entity via a provisioner account in response to a connection request from a client network entity. The host network entity may receive a digital cer...