ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,076, issued on April 22, was assigned to HashiCorp (San Francisco).

"Generating configuration files for configuring an information technology infrastructure" was invented by Mitchell Hashimoto (Los Angeles), Armon Dadgar (San Francisco) and Paul Hinze (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generating a configuration file for configuring an information technology infrastructure is provided. The method may include receiving, from a first user at a first client, a first indication to publish an infrastructure module comprising a set of configurations to apply to an information technology infrastructure. The infrastructure m...