ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,880, issued on May 13, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"AI agent for pre-build configuration of cloud services" was invented by Rajeev Sudhakar Bhopi (Mercer Island, Wash.), Yiwen Zhu (San Francisco), Helen Mary Serr (Boston), Jonah Karpman (San Diego), Matthew Joseph Gleeson (New York), Nicholas Kent Glaze (Cambridge, Mass.), Subramaniam Venkatraman Krishnan (San Jose, Calif.) and Irwin Hollar McNeely III (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example solutions provide an artificial intelligence (AI) agent for pre-build configuration of cloud services in order to enable the initial buil...