ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,933, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to SIGMA COMPUTING INC. (San Francisco).

"Cost attribution using resource switching" was invented by Samuel Andre Abraham Soubeyran (Mountain View, Calif.), Jack S. Qian (San Francisco), Prashant Soral (Redwood City, Calif.), Samantha C. Watts (Berkeley, Calif.), Zalak H. Trivedi (San Leandro, Calif.) and James A Johnson (Concord, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Cost attribution using resource switching including receiving, from a first client computing system, a first request for a dataset from a cloud-based data warehouse; retrieving the dataset from the cloud-based data warehouse using a fi...