ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,960, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Optimizing legacy application deployment using derived images in hyperscalers" was invented by Himanshu Joshi (Bangalore, India), Preeti Rani Deka (Bangalore, India), Penumatsa Naveen Varma (Bangalore, India), Suneel Veerasetti (Bangalore, India), Ankit Midha (Bangalore, India) and Santhosh Puttaswamygowda (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for providing, in a repository of a cloud computing environment, a set of images that are executable to deploy one or more instances of an application to the clo...