ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,978, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Management of computing services for applications composed of service virtual computing components" was invented by Hari Ohm Prasath Rajagopal (Tracy, Calif.) and Prashant Kumar Singh (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for managing computing services for an application comprising a plurality of virtual computing components executing on one or more host computing devices, wherein a service virtual computing component is to perform application functionality, and wherein a system computing component is to perform system fun...