ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,466, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Seattle).

"Creating visualizations for computing resource networks" was invented by Simon Young-min Kim (Fairfax, Va.), James Alexander Gray (Cape Town, South Africa), Patrick Charles Mahon (Gaithersburg, Md.), Daniel Charles Rich (Alexandria, Va.), Pavan Kumar Yakkala (Leander, Texas), Michael Stephen Bobick (Cape Town, South Africa), Bruno Henrique Penteado (Stephenson, Va.), Johannes Marthinus Bekker (McLean, Va.), Geoffrey McCarthy (Fort Myers, Fla.) and Akshay Choudhry (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for a service of a cloud computing ...