ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,154, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Health model for cloud service health monitoring" was invented by Zhangwei Xu (Redmond, Wash.), John Bronn Socha-Leialoha (Bellevue, Wash.), Rajive Kumar (Sammamish, Wash.), Yusuf Tinwala (Bellevue, Wash.) and Yingnong Dang (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The techniques described herein automatically correlate the health of cloud resources to a broader health determination for an entity executing within, or supported by, a distributed computing environment. In contrast to the typical manual analysis that is required to make ...