ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,238,166, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Providing managed services in a cloud environment" was invented by Yomesh Rajen Shah (London), Girish Ahuja (Round Rock, Texas), Jason Michael Rothstein (Austin, Texas), Mark Andrew Crawford (Austin, Texas), Neeraj Kumar (New Delhi) and Umair Ahmed (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to managing services by a managed service provider (MSP) in a cloud based infrastructure. A control plane of the MSP is established in a first tenancy, and a first access plane of the MSP is established in a second tena...