ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,349, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).
"Managing cloud acquisitions using distributed ledgers" was invented by Cathal O'Connor (Waterford, Israel) and Brian Gallagher (Waterford, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of the disclosure include: broadcasting, by a cloud resource provisioning component, to a cryptographically-protected distributed ledger, a first transaction comprising a cloud resource request for provisioning a cloud resource; transmitting, to one or more cloud providers, the cloud resource request; receiving, from a first cloud provider of the one or more cloud provid...