ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,104, issued on April 29, was assigned to Marvell Asia Pte Ltd (Singapore).

"System and method for user devices in cloud computing environment" was invented by Thiagarajan Muthuganesan (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and corresponding method consumerize cloud computing by incorporating consumer devices into an infrastructure of cloud computing environment. The consumer device comprises a client job manager that spawns a processing task on the consumer device responsive to a job request to perform at least a portion of a computational job. The computational job is requested by an end user device to be performed...