ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,147, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"System and method for providing a service management engine for use with a cloud computing environment" was invented by Rajiv Mordani (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Abhijit Kumar (Cupertino, Calif.), Bhavanishankara Sapaliga (Bangalore, India), Sivakumar Thyagarajan (Bangalore, India) and Nazrul Islam (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for providing a service management engine for use with a cloud computing environment. In accordance with an embodiment, enterprise software applications (e.g., Fusion Middleware appl...