ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,795, issued on March 11, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Cloud infrastructure management" was invented by Vu Nguyen (Mountain View, Calif.), Chen Li (Mountain View, Calif.), Katherine Huang (Mountain View, Calif.), Gongpu Zhu (Mountain View, Calif.), Zewen Li (Mountain View, Calif.) and Javier Kohen (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing cloud infrastructure includes receiving, from a user of a user device, a cloud infrastructure modification request requesting modification to cloud infrastructure. The cloud infrastructure modification request includes abstract configuration ...