ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,513, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Orchestration of datacenter destruction on a cloud platform" was invented by Srinivas Dhruvakumar (Vancouver, Canada), Christopher Steven Moyes (San Mateo, Calif.), Abhishek Waichal (Oakland, Calif.) and Varun Gupta (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system, for example, a multi-tenant system configures a datacenter in a cloud platform using a cloud platform infrastructure language that is cloud platform independent. The system destroys the datacenter or a set of datacenter entities of the datacenter. The system determines dependencies...