ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,214, issued on June 10, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Triggering a service mitigation action based on a causal-predictive system" was invented by Valerie Galluzzi Liptak (Mill Creek, Wash.), Sourav Kumar Agarwal (Hyderabad, India), Tarun Bhatia (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Amber Roy Chowdhury (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for predicting a future defect and triggering a mitigation action. In an example, a system generates a first input to a causal model based on geographical data associated with a location and area data associated with one or more areas that include the loca...