ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,346, issued on March 18, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Latency service level agreement based scheduling of operating system threads at cloud services" was invented by James Christopher Sorenson III (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A response initiation time target based at least in part on a service level agreement is assigned to a task requested from a network-accessible service. A deadline parameter of a thread identified to perform sub-tasks of the task at a service logic implementation node is set based on the target. The thread is scheduled for execution using an operating system thread scheduling ...