ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,036, issued on June 2, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Impact analysis of infrastructure as code with recommendations and justifications" was invented by Gregory R. Hintermeister (Rochester, Minn.), Deepak Elampurayadathil Divakaran (Bangalore, India) and Santosh Shanmukh (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment detects by a Policy Compliance Orchestrator, an infrastructure code, and determines an infrastructure change from the infrastructure code. The embodiment sends the infrastructure change by the Policy Compliance Orchestrator to a Budget Component, which computes a bud...