US Patent Issued to VMware on Nov. 18 for "Validation of cloud provider application programming interface (API) privileges" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,970, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Validation of cloud provider application programming interface (API) privileges" was invented by Suresh Balla (Visakhapatnam, India) and Umedh Meshram (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatus, articles of manufacture, and methods are disclosed for template generation to enforce desired states on cloud accounts. An example apparatus disclosed herein includes programmable circuitry to access a privilege from a cloud account, the privilege associated with a resource to be deployed based on a template, validate the privilege relative to templat...