ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,505, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to VeriSign Inc. (Reston, Va.).
"Multiple provisioning object operation" was invented by James F. Gould (Leesburg, Va.), Srikanth Veeramachaneni (South Riding, Va.) and Nagesh Chigurupati (Aldie, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, computer-readable medium, and an apparatus operable to perform the method is provided for managing multiple provisioned domain name system ("DNS") registry objects. The method can include receiving, at a DNS registry, a multiple domain extensible provisioning protocol ("EPP") command from a registrar on behalf of a registrant to perform a...