ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,134, issued on April 15, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Federated execution of data lake processes" was invented by Daniel Opincariu (Redmond, Wash.), Rajasuba Subramanian (Seattle), Arnab Dutta (Campbell, Calif.), Deepan Chakravarthy Vijayarangam (Vancouver, Canada), Ranil Pavithran Muzhangathu (South Lyon, Mich.) and Anas Fattahi (Dearborn, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a data lake, a control data object is defined. The control object defines the processes and relationships of processes associated with a data set in the data lake. The control has states that are tied to and adapt in response to state ...