ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,279, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Methods and systems that manage cloud-computing infrastructure by idempotent application of data specifications and enforced-state management" was invented by Kalyan Devarakonda (Bangalore, India), Praneeth Bobba (Hyderabad, India), Prasanna Ganapathi (Bangalore, India) and Murali Sampangiramiaiah (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The current document is directed to an infrastructure-as-code ("IaC") cloud-infrastructure-management service or system that allows users and upstream management systems to define and deploy infrastructure, such as virtual...