ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,708, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to ServiceNow Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Discovery of resource clusters" was invented by Hail Tal (Petah Tikva, Israel), Tom Bar Oz (Petah Tikva, Israel), Bary Solomon (Petah Tikva, Israel) and Leonid Suslov (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A discovery application on a computing system is provided. The discovery application receives a user input, which is for discovery of resources associated with a cloud operating system of a cloud computing system. The user input includes an authentication credential and account information associated with the cloud operating system. Based on...