ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,023, issued on June 23, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Cloud architecture generation, simulation, and optimization" was invented by Garrett Lewellen (Longmont, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for generating, simulating, and optimizing one or more provider-specific cloud-based architectures from a provider-independent architecture definition are disclosed. An architecture generator maps provider-independent service definitions to provider-specific service components for one or more specific cloud service providers. An architecture simulator simulates execution of a set of operatio...