ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,156, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to InfraSight Software Corp. (Huntersville, N.C.).

"Quantifying usage of disparate computing resources as a single unit of measure" was invented by Timothy A. Martin (Huntersville, N.C.) and Myron L. Stewart (Harrisburg, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method including: receiving a single usage value for a plurality of physical computing resources over a period of time; receiving a cost for the plurality of physical computing resources; and determining, using one or more processors, a normalized usage rate cost of the plurality of physical computing resources over the period of time by norma...