US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on April 15 for "Adaptive sleep virtual machines in a cloud provider network" (Washington, New Mexico, New Jersey, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,449, issued on April 15, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Adaptive sleep virtual machines in a cloud provider network" was invented by Rahul Pathak (Mercer Island, Wash.), Dallas Lamont Willett (Albuquerque, N.M.), Jeff Thomas Carter (Bellevue, Wash.), Anthony A Virtuoso (Hawthorne, N.J.) and Robin Alan Golden (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for adaptive sleep virtual machine management are described. A service of a provider network receives a parameter indicating that a first virtual machine can be slept and determines to sleep the first virtual machine based at least in part on the pa...