US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on June 3 for "Low latency computational capacity provisioning" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,766, issued on June 3, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Low latency computational capacity provisioning" was invented by Timothy Allen Wagner (Seattle), Dylan Chandler Thomas (Seattle) and Sean Philip Reque (Everett, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for providing low latency computational capacity is provided. The system may be configured to maintain a pool of virtual machine instances, which may be assigned to users to service the requests associated with the users. The system may further be configured to receive a request to acquire compute capacity for executing a program code associated with a part...