ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,430, issued on July 8, was assigned to FMR LLC (Boston).

"Provisioning a database management platform in a cloud computing environment" was invented by Jason A. Custodio (Manchester, N.H.), Raghu Kumar Thukral (Apex, N.C.), James Dooney (Somerville, Mass.) and Victor Soohoo (Wellesley, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for provisioning a database management platform in a cloud computing environment include a server that reserves virtual computing resources in the cloud environment. The server provisions a database management platform using the reserved virtual computing resources. The database management pla...