ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,747, issued on April 15, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Systems and methods to analyze root cause anomaly" was invented by Rajendra Kumar Vippagunta (Issaquah, Wash.), Syed Furqhan Ulla (Kirkland, Wash.), Sunayana Vempati (Seattle), Yekesa Srinivasa Kosuru (Westford, Mass.), Namita Das (Seattle), Devesh Ratho (Seattle), Shashwat Srijan (Bellevue, Wash.), Lenon Alexander Minorics (Stuttgart, Germany), Patrick Bloebaum (Mountain View, Calif.) and David Kernert (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system obtains a graph representing a set of resources of a distributed system. At least one node of the...