ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,781, issued on March 11, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Decentralized network based computing services" was invented by Aman Agarwal (Gurgaon, India), Gaurav Virdy (Gurugram, India), Priya Aneja (Faridabad, India) and Prince Batra (Yamuna Nagar, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Users propose, review, reject, comment on, and approve rules or program code to implement rules in a decentralized network. When the users act on proposed rules, they are credited with member scores according to their contributions. The rules are used to calculate, for example, obligations for a user. When the network is used to calc...