ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,976, issued on July 15, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Low latency writes to local tables by event-triggered functions at the edge" was invented by Karthik Uthaman (Seattle), Ted David Middleton (Fall City, Wash.), Ronil Sudhir Mokashi (Mercer Island, Wash.), Prashant Verma (Seattle) and Alexander Korobeynikov (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Edge functions at an edge location of a content delivery network (CDN) may use APIs of a datastore engine in order to read/write or create/delete local tables at the edge location. Data may be accumulated in the local tables and the new data may be used to en...