ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,631, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Reference implementation of cloud computing resources" was invented by Malarvizhi Kandasamy (OMBR Layout, India), Sudheesh S. Kairali (Kozhikode, India) and Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are techniques for reference implementation of cloud computing resources. The techniques include receiving specifications for a computing resource flow to implement a computing solution in a cloud computing environment. The computing resource flow comprises a set of computing resources and computing resource ...