US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Oct. 21 for "Providing query units to support external analytics queries to a backup of a database" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,229, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Providing query units to support external analytics queries to a backup of a database" was invented by Nicholas Gordon (Seattle), Akshat Vig (Medina, Wash.), Ravi Math (Redmond, Wash.), Shahzeb Farrukh (Bothell, Wash.) and Sangeeth Prem (Surrey, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Queries may be made against a non-relational database without impacting the capacities of the non-relational database by enabling performance of queries to a non-relational database via an external query management, backup management, and a non-relational database backup hosted i...