ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,895, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Anyscale Inc. (San Francisco).

"Local system environment for cloud based development" was invented by Eric Liang (Berkeley, Calif.), Philipp Moritz (San Francisco) and Sofian Hnaide (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, device, and method for providing a development environment for a client system that runs on a cluster is disclosed. The method includes (i) starting the cluster from the client system to run the development environment, wherein starting the cluster includes instantiating the cluster based on a predefined cluster image, and configuring a set of dependencies for ...