ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,635, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"System and method for providing a committed throughput level in a data store" was invented by Swaminathan Sivasubramanian (Seattle), Stefano Stefani (Issaquah, Wash.), Wei Xiao (Kirkland, Wash.), Timothy Andrew Rath (Seattle), Rande A. Blackman (Seattle), Grant Alexander MacDonald McAlister (Seattle) and Raymond S. Bradford (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system that implements a scaleable data storage service may maintain tables in a data store on behalf of storage service clients. The service may maintain data in partitions stored on respective ...