ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,607, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"System and method for implementing a scalable data storage service" was invented by Swaminathan Sivasubramanian (Sammamish, Wash.), Stefano Stefani (Issaquah, Wash.), Chiranjeeb Buragohain (Issaquah, Wash.), Rande A. Blackman (Seattle), Timothy Andrew Rath (Des Moines, Wash.), Raymond S. Bradford (Seattle), Grant Alexander MacDonald McAlister (Seattle), Jakub Kulesza (Bellevue, Wash.), James R. Hamilton (Seattle) and Luis Felipe Cabrera (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system that implements a scalable data storage service may maintain table...