ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,483, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Framework for managing configurations of cloud computing resources" was invented by Sameer Kumar Patro (Bhubaneswar, India), Aritra Basu (Bangalore, India) and Raghavendra Subhash (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to generating, updating, modifying, and otherwise managing configurations for virtual services on a cloud computing system. The present disclosure provides example implementations of a configuration management system and configuration handlers on respective server nodes that receive a...