ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,967, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Degradation planning and mitigation in hybrid cloud environments" was invented by Krishnasuri Narayanam (Bangalore, India), Ashok Pon Kumar Sree Prakash (Bangalore, India) and Padmanabha Venkatagiri Seshadri (Mysore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer program product comprises a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith. The program instructions are executable by one or more processors to cause the one or more processors to construct an interaction graph based in part on a distributed applica...