US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on May 27 for "Execution of auxiliary functions in an on-demand network code execution system" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,752, issued on May 27, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Execution of auxiliary functions in an on-demand network code execution system" was invented by Niall Mullen (Seattle), Philip Piwonka (Seattle), Timothy Allen Wagner (Seattle) and Marc Brooker (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for providing auxiliary functions in an on-demand code execution system in a manner that enables efficient execution of code. A user may generate a task on the system by submitting code. The system may determine the auxiliary functions that the submitted code may require when executed on the syst...