ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,157, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Hybrid cloud data control" was invented by Shikha Garg (Houston), Daniel Keith Scholl (Dallas), Mehmet Kadri Umay (Redmond, Wash.), Imran Siddique (Bellevue, Wash.) and Nayana Singh Patel (Mercer Island, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A remote server computing system is configured to present a user interface with a plurality of deployment configuration options including compute configuration options and data storage configuration options for energy-related data within a hybrid cloud environment. The hybrid cloud environment comprises a...