ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,980, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Dynamically parallelized workflow processing" was invented by Scott Matthew King (Parksville, Canada), Justin Wayne Callison (Vancouver, Canada), Jalandip Lepcha (Vancouver, Canada), Daniel James Ronald (Vancouver, Canada), Feng Qiu (Calgary, Canada), Diego Raphael Pedroza Santiviago (Burnaby, Canada), Gabriel Howard Mastey (North Vancouver, Canada), Maury Richard Sponchia (Delta, Canada) and Russell William Mackenzie (Bowen Island, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and methods are provided for dynamically parallelized large data set processing. A...