ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,447, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Process improvements for region builds for cloud networks" was invented by Owen Christopher Cliffe (Bath, Great Britain), Michel Belleau (L'Ange-Gardien, Canada), Igor Vasilev (Ottawa), Siyuan Peng (Kirkland, Wash.), Kenneth Richard Fox (Redwood City, Calif.) and William Thomas Price (Weston-Super-Mare, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques disclosed herein pertain to region building for cloud networks and, particularly, for region building process improvements. The techniques include accessing first configuration instructi...