US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Feb. 17 for "Cost estimation for a cloud-based infrastructure provisioning system" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,552, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Cost estimation for a cloud-based infrastructure provisioning system" was invented by Mitchell Hashimoto (Manhattan Beach, Calif.), Armon Dadgar (Seattle), Matthew Hooker (San Francisco) and Paul Thrasher (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cost estimator system receives a plan, a configuration or proposed changes for a cloud-based infrastructure, and which include data representing one or more computing resources needed for a cloud-based application. A new configuration is generated for the cloud-based infrastructure incorporat...