ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,935, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"System selected fungible configurable attributes for a compute instance" was invented by Daniel S. Goldfein (Seattle), Sanjay Pillai (Seattle), Max Yekaterynenko (Leander, Texas), Shihao Sun (Kirkland, Wash.) and Ali R. Sahibzada (Woodinville, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for configuring and creating a compute instance are disclosed. A system may receive a request to launch a compute instance where the compute instance defined by a configurable attribute, The request comprises one or more user-specified criteria for the co...