ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,627, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).
"Policy engine for governing cloud environments" was invented by Asif Ibrahimkutty (Trivandrum, India) and Biju Narayanan (Trivandrum, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments govern cloud environments using a policy engine. A plurality of policy definitions for governing a plurality of managed environments can be received at a policy engine, each policy definition including one or more conditions and one or more actions, where the managed environments implement cloud based virtual machines that host cloud based applications. Events ...