ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,685, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to THE BOEING COMPANY (Arlington, Va.).

"System architecture for secure highly available microservice applications with decentralized authorization using short-lived tokens for security enforcement in cloud platforms" was invented by David R. Bowman (Charleston, S.C.), Preston R. Barbare (Mount Pleasant, S.C.), Frank R. Ellis-IV (San Jose, Calif.), Gene Hynson (San Jose, Calif.) and Melissa Ohlandt (Charleston, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device includes one or more processors configured to receive an authentication request indicating credentials of a requestor. The one or more process...