ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,847, issued on June 24, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Cloud-based device discovery" was invented by Abraham M. Passaglia (Seattle), Edward J. Gayles (Tracy, Calif.), Samuel S. Gigliotti (Seattle), Nadir Kiyanclar (Seattle), Zaka Ur Rehman Ashraf (Pleasanton, Calif.), Brett N. Lynnes (San Jose, Calif.), John L. Miller (Seattle), Ruoruo Zhang (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Rajasimman Madhivanan (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Describe herein are techniques for providing cloud-based discovery. For example, a device may be configured to provide device registration and de-registration notifications to a...