ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,301, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Radio-based unlock techniques for reconfigurable servers running in cloud-disconnected mode" was invented by Frank Paterra (Oakton, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "During a time period in which a server is in a locked state, such that execution of an application at the server is not permitted, a reception of a radio message at the server is detected. In response to determining that the radio message satisfies an unlocking criterion associated with the server, the server is caused to exit the locked state, and execution of the application is initiated at the...