ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,669, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Techniques for building and validating database software in a shared management environment" was invented by Dallas Lamont Willett (Albuquerque, N.M.), Mostafa G. Ead (Vancouver, Canada), Nitin Kumar Saxena (Bellevue, Wash.), Lakshman Potluri (Mill Creek, Wash.), Oleg Leizerov (West Vancouver, Canada), Prudhvi Janga (Bothell, Wash.) and Nathan Douglas Bossart (Lynnwood, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for building, validating, and utilizing custom database software in a shared management environment are described. A database customization ser...