ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,737, issued on June 3, was assigned to FMR LLC (Boston).

"Automating software application infrastructure deployment in a cloud computing environment" was invented by Arpan Desai (Murphy, Texas) and Rajat Jain (Apex, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for automating software application infrastructure deployment in a cloud computing environment include defining hierarchical infrastructure layers for a software application, generating a deployment pipeline for the software application comprising pre-coded resource configuration modules, and triggering execution of the deployment pipeline to deploy the software a...