ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,774, issued on July 14, was assigned to Accenture Global Solutions Ltd. (Dublin).

"Cloud fitness engineering" was invented by Mahesh Venkataraman (Bangalore, India), Sundharraman Karthik Narain (Los Gatos, Calif.), Michael A. Ljung (Chicago), Ajoy Menon (Bangalore, India), Shylaja Shivaram (Bangalore, India), David Edward Wood (El Segundo, Calif.) and Reuben Rajan George (Enathu, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating a cloud-computing system architecture. In some implementations, target performance criteria associated with an...