ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,185, issued on July 22, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Replication system for data migration" was invented by Krit Gupta (Vancouver, Canada), Sunil Venkayala (Shrewsbury, Mass.), Avijit Borthakur (Hillsborough, Calif.), Michael Surkan (Bellevue, Wash.), John Winford (Seattle), Daniel Joseph Sheridan (Canaan, N.H.), Sathish Sampath (Redmond, Wash.), Mykyta Sokolov (North Bend, Wash.) and Igor Bekelman (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are disclosed for determining and provisioning and data resources for use in migrations data processing systems. Source data processing system me...