ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,222, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Dedicated cloud regions at customer premises" was invented by James Walter Wichelman (Fort Collins, Colo.), Eric J. Lundy (Omaha, Neb.), Chandramohan Krishnamoorthy (Thornton, Colo.), Andreas Lemos (Winter Garden, Fla.), Travis Lauren Anderson (Saint Augustine, Fla.), Alyssa Wachs Augsburger (Arvada, Colo.), Sidney Lorenzo Bowen (Loveland, Colo.) and Jagwinder Singh Brar (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for managing aspects of a dedicated region cloud at a customer location (a "DRCC"). A DRCC may com...