US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Oct. 27 for "Cross cloud serving" (Swiss, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,502, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Cross cloud serving" was invented by Thomas Parnell (Zurich), Malgorzata Lazuka (Zurich), Andreea Anghel (Adliswil, Switzerland) and Parikshit Ram (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer product and methodology for serving a cloud workload across multiple cloud service providers. A first evaluation is performed for a first configuration in a first cloud service of the plurality of cloud services, and a second evaluation is performed for a second configuration in a second cloud service of the plurality of cloud services. A first r...