ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,463, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"System and method for managing cloud service resources in a cloud computing environment" was invented by Sachin Subraya Pandit (Santa Clara, Calif.), Qun Guo (Seattle), Pankaj Arora (Sammamish, Wash.), Shize Xu (Redmond, Wash.), Venkat Parthasarathy (San Jose, Calif.), Ajay Kalhan (Redmond, Wash.) and John M. Oslake (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and devices are described for managing cloud services implemented by one or more clusters in a cloud computing environment. Responsive to receiving a first notification in...