ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,861, issued on March 25, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Control service for data management" was invented by Swaminathan Sivasubramanian (Seattle), Grant Alexander MacDonald McAlister (Seattle), Paul David Franklin (Seattle), Rajesh Sudhakar Sheth (Bellevue, Wash.) and James Horsley (Bainbridge Island, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of a data environment, such as the creation, provisioning, and management of data stores and instances, are managed using a separate control environment. A user can call into an externally-facing interface of the control environment, the call being analyzed to determin...