ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,773, issued on May 27, was assigned to CLOUDFLARE INC. (San Francisco).

"Dynamic selection of where to execute application code in a distributed cloud computing network" was invented by Michael Hart (New York), Alyson Cabral (Austin, Texas) and Kenton Taylor Varda (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A request is received from a client device at a first datacenter a distributed cloud computing network. The distributed cloud computing network includes multiple datacenters. The received request triggers execution of code at the distributed cloud computing network. The code includes a first function and a second function. A det...