US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Dec. 9 for "Plugin based host definitions for a multi-cloud infrastructure" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,043, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Plugin based host definitions for a multi-cloud infrastructure" was invented by Jeff Mitchell (Boston), Michael J. Gaffney (Perry Hall, Md.), Christopher Joseph Marchesi (Vancouver, Canada), Todd Knight (Tucson, Ariz.) and James Lambert (Milford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for accessing computing elements of a cloud computing infrastructure includes a dynamic host interface associated with an identity-based access management system. The dynamic host interface is configured to receive host catalogs from components of the clo...