ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,981, issued on July 22, was assigned to AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Seattle).

"Managed discovery of inventory information for user accounts" was invented by Srinivasan Ramkumar (San Jose, Calif.), Rajesh Yarlagadda (San Jose, Calif.), Rajesh Gopidi (Alpharetta, Ga.), Xiangyin Li (San Jose, Calif.) and Ramapulla Reddy Chennuru (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for managed services of cloud systems to perform inventory discovery of computing instances with particular configurations across user accounts in an organization, and across regions in the cloud systems. Cloud systems offer managed services that automate...