US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Sept. 23 for "Cloud management of customer-created applications" (French, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,129, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Cloud management of customer-created applications" was invented by Mustapha Lazrek (Clamart, France), Soufiane Loukili (Bellevue, Wash.), Sacha Kley (Paris) and Paul Dib (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for configuring virtual machines to support workloads performed by customer-created applications includes provisioning a first and second subsets of virtual machines (VMs) in a customer VM group based on a first and second customer-specified VM images. Workloads of a first type are allocated to select VMs...