US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Oct. 6 for "Establishing a multi-cloud environment" (Japanese, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,294, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Establishing a multi-cloud environment" was invented by Eliezer Segev Wasserkrug (Haifa, Israel) and Takayuki Osogami (Yamato, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are techniques for establishing a multi-cloud environment. A multi-cloud environment is modeled using a game theoretic model. Furthermore, a probability distribution over information technology costs for both the cloud buyers and cloud providers is created. Additionally, an estimate of the expected utility (measure of how much benefit a party receives or is expected to re...