ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,842, issued on March 4, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Continuous deployment and orchestration of feature processing units in a managed cloud and a provider network for consistent data processing" was invented by Palani Chinnakannan (San Jose, Calif.), Nicolas Pouyez (Bainbridge Island, Wash.), Venkata Harish Kommaraju (Redmond, Wash.), Lomash Kumar (Sammamish, Wash.) and Christopher Michael Morrissey (Lake Forest Park, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A feature deployment service of a provider network may deploy feature processing units (FPUs) to implement data processing features at both a provider network...