ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,236, issued on Sept. 15.

"Methods and systems for schema driven cloud resource discovery and inventory" was invented by Rathinasabapathy Arumugam (Chennai, India) and Satyabrat Chowdhury (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, a computerized cloud resource model (CRM) implementing a schema driven cloud resource discovery and inventory by: defining a resource characteristic, a hierarchy characteristic, a dependency characteristic, and an action characteristic in a declarative model for a cloud resource. Discovering a cloud-resource comprising the resource characteristic, the hierarchy characteristic, the depende...