US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Dec. 9 for "Cloud-based database for spatial data lifecycle management" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,626, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Cloud-based database for spatial data lifecycle management" was invented by Jonathan Fritz (Seattle), Omer Ahmed Zaki (Bellevue, Wash.) and Yannis Papakonstantinou (La Jolla, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for a cloud-based database for spatial data lifecycle management. A spatial database receives elements of spatial data from a plurality of clients of the distributed spatial database. An individual element of the spatial data comprises one or more location values or one or more spatial objects. The spatial...