ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,033, issued on June 30, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Multi-tiered hybrid multi-cloud service management architecture" was invented by Kushal S. Patel (Pune, India), Gandhi Sivakumar (Bentleigh, Australia) and Sarvesh S. Patel (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment detects an inter-cloud service negotiation between a plurality of cloud environments, the inter-cloud service negotiation indicating an interaction between the plurality of cloud environments. The embodiment identifies a plurality of local controllers in the plurality of cloud environments, a local controller in t...