ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,025, issued on May 27, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Diagnostic online result assessment (DORA) in a cloud environment" was invented by Edward J. Fron (Denver), Nicholas A. Goodman (Durango, Colo.) and Kristl Smith Tyler (Spokane, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are systems and methods for automated, secure, and credential-less evaluation (e.g., grading) of data processing task results (e.g., student/learner data processing lab result or assignment completion result) in a cloud environment using a learning management system (LMS). For example, a method includes detecting verification request c...