ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,639, issued on June 17, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Standardized machine data interface protocol" was invented by Steven Scott Altvater (Elkton, Md.), Tony James Millross (Tampa, Fla.), Kyle Robert Hoxit (Mays Landing, N.J.), Jigar Pandya (Robbinsville, N.J.) and Marcos A. Sanchez (Lithia, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments for a standardized machine data interface protocol are described herein. A request for information about a state of a component of a machine may be received where the request is in an agnostic data format. A particular machine and a particular component of the particular machi...