ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,720, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Ticket-based provisioning of cloud infrastructure for a SaaS provider" was invented by Paul Welch (Washington), Kim Ngo (Fort Worth, Texas), Justin Campbell (West Chester, Pa.), Greg Hoin (Annecy, France) and Lauren Rother (Durnham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for ticket-based provisioning of cloud infrastructure from one or more cloud providers to build one or more computing workspaces of an enterprise. A provisioning platform provides a module catalog having one or more infrastructure-as-code (IAC) modules, each ...