ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,286, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Techniques for providing cloud services on demand" was invented by Eden Grail Adogla (Seattle), Matthew Victor Rushton (Portsmouth, N.H.), Iliya Roitburg (Seattle) and Brijesh Singh (Mercer Island, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for deploying a computing resource (e.g., a service) in response to user input. A computer-implemented method can include operations of receiving (e.g., by a gateway computer of a cloud-computing environment) a request comprising an identifier for a computing component of the cloud-co...