ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,062, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Data set management using data set lineage metadata" was invented by Karthik Ravindra Rao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Raghu Chaitanya Puligilla (Hyderabad, India), Enrico Sartorello (Berlin), Michal Marshall (Seattle), Ameer Nizarsami Ayoub (Seattle), Kalpesh N Sutaria (Redmond, Wash.), Paul Matthew Kohan (Seattle), Vivek Bhadauria (Redmond, Wash.), Rama Krishna Sandeep Pokkunuri (Redmond, Wash.), Hammad Latif Mirza (Seattle), Kshitiz Mohan Agarwal (Kirkland, Wash.) and Yong Yuan (Mercer Island, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data set management of a provider...