ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,454, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Digital twin models for components and systems of components" was invented by Palani Chinnakannan (San Jose, Calif.), Arvind Karuppasamy (Issaquah, Wash.) and Varadarajan Devnath (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A digital twin service of a provider network allows a user to build high fidelity models ("digital twins") for components and for systems of multiple components. For a given component, the digital twin service receives, from a user, identification of interactions for the component (e.g., inputs/outputs at the boundary), identification ...