ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,719, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for optimizing resources for applications deployed in primary and backup geographically dispersed cloud environments" was invented by Satish S. Vasamsetti (San Francisco), Jerry Steben (Fort Worth, Texas), Raymond WaiMan So (San Ramon, Calif.) and Peter B. Sensenbrenner (North Richland Hills, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A primary application cloud instance may receive historical usage of an application, may allocate, based on the historical usage, a quantity of cloud resources for enabling the application to ...