ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,337, issued on June 17, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Centralized approach for managing cross-service data of cloud resources" was invented by Mohamed Saber Abdelfattah Hassan (Bellevue, Wash.), Jonathan Jorge Nadal (Seattle), Nathaniel Martin Glass (Bellevue, Wash.), Yu Wu (Sammamish, Wash.), Daniel Music Vogel (Seattle) and Geoff Hopcraft (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for managing network-accessible infrastructure metadata are provided. A method includes receiving a resource request comprising resource metadata corresponding to a network-accessible infrastructure ...