US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Feb. 18 for "Managing use of program execution capacity" (American, South African Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,077, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Managing use of program execution capacity" was invented by Peter N. DeSantis (Seattle), Matthew S. Garman (Seattle), Charles Ward (Sammamish, Wash.), James Alfred Gordon Greenfield (Cape Town, South Africa) and Andrew R. Jassy (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for managing execution of programs. In some situations, program execution is managed for multiple users using excess program execution capacity of one or more computing systems. In some such situations, excess or otherwise unused program execution capacity may be made av...