ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,464, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Selecting best cloud computing environment in a hybrid cloud scenario" was invented by Anton Zorin (Waedenswil, Switzerland), Manish Kesarwani (Bangalore, India), Niels Dominic Pardon (Zurich), Ritesh Kumar Gupta (Hyderabad, India) and Sameep Mehta (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments for identifying an optimal cloud computing environment for a computing task is disclosed. Embodiments comprises receiving a computing task to be executed in a cloud computing environment, wherein the computing task requires a set of clo...