ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,235, issued on May 6, was assigned to HashiCorp (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for managing multi-component, multi-deployment infrastructure-as-code configurations for cloud computing platforms" was invented by Alisdair McDiarmid (Toronto), Chris Arcand (Minneapolis), Martin Atkins (Portland, Ore.), Brian Earwood (Memphis, Tenn.) and Sarah Hernandez (Union City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method employed by an infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tool that is configured for defining IaC configurations comprising containers of interconnected components of a cloud computing platform. A system includes a graph gen...