ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,421, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Interactive geographical map for management of computing resources" was invented by Sourabh Sharma (Pune, India), Cheng Cheng (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Shailesh Dwivedi (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for presenting a graphical user interface (GUI) for configuring a distributed resource instance are disclosed. The system presents an interactive GUI displaying a geographical map and displays a plurality of user interface (UI) elements overlaid on the geographical map, each respective UI element respectively cor...