ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,127, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Data management in a public cloud network" was invented by Bo Zong (Bellevue, Wash.), Tony Wong (San Francisco), Ran Yao (San Francisco), Kin Lun Wong (San Francisco) and Daeki Cho (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method is disclosed for predicting, based on a previous usage of a cloud-based computing resource by a number of users of the cloud-based computing resource, a future usage of the cloud-based computing resource. The method includes predicting, based on the predicted future usage of the cloud-based computing resour...