US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on June 24 for "Tightly coupled parallel applications on a serverless computing system" (Washington, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,261, issued on June 24, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Tightly coupled parallel applications on a serverless computing system" was invented by Arijit Ganguly (Kirkland, Wash.), Prashant Kumar Singh (Seattle) and Ravi S Nagayach (Aurora, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A serverless computing system executes user-submitted code in sandboxed environments such as virtual machines or containers. To support execution of parallel applications that require data transfer between instances of the application, the serverless computing system implements an ephemeral mesh network that allows instances of the parallel app...