ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,019, issued on June 10, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Smart data storage tiers for data object transitioning" was invented by Leon Thrane (Issaquah, Wash.), Miles Childs Kaufmann (Seattle), Suresh Kumar Golconda (Seattle), Anand Chakraborty (Redmond, Wash.), Arvinth Ravi (Seattle), Nikhil Menon (Seattle), Shikha Sukumaran (Issaquah, Wash.), Bhavesh Anil Doshi (Redmond, Wash.) and Phillip H. Pruett IV (Woodinville, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object-based data storage service receives a request to store a data object in association with a smart data storage tier. Based at least in part on characteris...