US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on July 1 for "Compact hosting of database query processors using virtualization snapshots" (Washington, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,327, issued on July 1, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Compact hosting of database query processors using virtualization snapshots" was invented by Marc Brooker (Seattle), Gourav Roy (Redmond, Wash.), James Alexander Morle (Dripping Springs, Texas), Anthony Nicholas Liguori (Bainbridge Island, Wash.) and Marc Bowes (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compact hosting of database query processors is performed using virtualization snapshots. When a request to access a database is received via a previously established connection from a client for an idle query processor that is not currently executing, a virtualiz...