ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,999, issued on July 14, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Data security in a cloud computing environment" was invented by Shawn Patrick Mullen (Buda, Texas), Priyanshu Joshi (Haldwani, India), Sourav Mahanty (Jamshedpur, India) and Subhajit Bhuiya (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An event notification can be received. The event notification can indicate a customer impacting event and a cloud resource name of a cloud resource to which the customer impacting event pertains. Data contained in the cloud resource name can be parsed. Information specifically relevant to the customer impa...