ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,593, issued on April 7, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"User-configured multi-location service deployment and scaling" was invented by Mohammad Asif Ali Khan (Toronto), Imran Adam Matin (Pleasanton, Calif.), Junaid Arif Kapadia (Irving, Texas), Jovenal C Torres (Toronto), Julian Lee Sweatt (San Francisco) and Bashuman Deb (Aldi, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for intelligent user-configured multi-location service deployment and scaling are described. Autoscaling configuration data is received, the autoscaling configuration data including an application redistribution trigger condition and a placeme...