US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on April 7 for "Techniques for performing continuation workflows by terminating virtual machine based on response time exceeding threshold" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,559, issued on April 7, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Techniques for performing continuation workflows by terminating virtual machine based on response time exceeding threshold" was invented by Anthony Nicholas Liguori (Bainbridge Island, Wash.) and Douglas Stewart Laurence (Mercer Island, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first instance is caused to execute software code to perform a first portion of a workflow in response to receipt of a workflow request, and performance of the first portion results in submission of an operation request to an entity. A resume workflow request is received from the entity,...