ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,799, issued on March 25, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Identifying fault-injection impact zones" was invented by Adrian John Hornsby (Espoo, Finland), Laura Wingert Thomson (South Queensferry, Great Britain), Warren Robert Russell (Dublin), Alan O'Leary (Dublin) and Serafin Antonio Sedano Arenas (B, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are various embodiments for identifying fault injection impact zones. A test for an application can be received from a test service. An application schema can then be created that represents the systems or services that are involved in the execution of the application....