ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,569, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Single sign-on between 2 independent states" was invented by Shobhank Sharma (Kirkland, Wash.), Venkata Subbarao Evani (Fremont, Calif.), Kranthi Kiran Pandiri (Redmond, Wash.), Girish Nagaraja (Sammamish, Wash.), Nagaraj Pattar (Karnataka, India), Martinus Petrus Lambertus van den Dungen (Redmond, Wash.), Ashok Kumar Subbaiyan (Tamil Nadu, India) and Ghazanfar Ahmed (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for single sign-on between two independent systems are disclosed herein. The method can include receiving a r...