US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on July 29 for "Managed activation of licensed software" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,445, issued on July 29, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Managed activation of licensed software" was invented by Willian Silva Martins (Mountain View, Calif.), Ramapulla Reddy Chennuru (Milpitas, Calif.), Sambodhi Chakrabarty (Folsom, Calif.), Juveria Kanodia (Saratoga, Calif.), Srinivasan Ramkumar (San Jose, Calif.), Sree Sunku (Seattle), Raviprasad V Mummidi (Mountain View, Calif.) and Nidhi Harish Panpalia (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for a license manager service of a cloud system to provide users with the ability to activate and run licensed applications in the cloud system....