ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,961, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Cloud architect" was invented by Belinda Lei (Los Angeles), Qasim Ijaz (Atlanta), Sandeep Gusain (Alpharetta, Ga.), Shi Cheng (Dunwoody, Ga.), Vijaya Lakshmi Sri Pallavi Damera (Redmond, Wash.), Ross James Lordon (Seattle), Fan Mai (Bellevue, Wash.), Julia Anne Cheng (Issaquah, Wash.) and Rui Wu (Redmond, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cloud architect guides cloud architecture design and deployment for users of all skill levels. Generative artificial intelligence (AI) interprets user specifications to provide architectural diagrams f...