ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,477, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to PepsiCo Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).

"Systems and methods for provisioning and configuring computing services" was invented by George Xu Gong (Purchase, N.Y.), Birojit Nath (Telangana, India), Eric Jackson (Plano, Texas) and Ravinder Gaur (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for provisioning and configuring a computing service. An embodiment operates by receiving a request for the provisioning and configuration of the computing ser...