ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,759, issued on July 28, was assigned to Elevance Health Inc. (Indianapolis).

"Systems and methods for automated cloud provisioning" was invented by Karthik Ramachandran (Prosper, Texas), Jason Pichardo (Stafford, Va.), Lee Graves (Goochland, Va.), Val Ezike (Collegeville, Pa.), Barry Martin (Bradenton, Fla.), Mamadou Bah (Indianapolis) and Wesley Carlton (Indianapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is disclosed for automating creation of an account to access to a plurality of cloud based platforms, comprising receiving an intake request; determining whether the account is requested on a first cloud platform or a second cloud...