ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,772, issued on May 27, was assigned to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Variabilized deployment and management of cloud-based environments" was invented by Karl A. Cardenas (Scottsdale, Ariz.), Michael Brux (Mesa, Ariz.) and Todd D. Wigginton (Mesa, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques described herein relate to creating and managing groups of cloud-based environments. An interface may be provided through which operators can provide environment configuration variables and request creation and deployment of cloud computing environments. The operator may provide configuration variables via the...