ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,157, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Equinix Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Interconnection platform for real-time configuration and management of a cloud-based services exchange" was invented by Parveen Kumar (Fremont, Calif.), Gagan Maheshwari (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jaganathan Jeyapaul (Saratoga, Calif.) and Brian J. Lillie (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one example, a cloud-based services exchange comprises a plurality of interconnection assets configured to connect a customer of the cloud-based services exchange to one or more cloud service providers, the plurality of interconnection assets including a vir...