ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,206, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Computer-implemented object management via tags" was invented by Eric J. Brandwine (Haymarket, Va.) and Matthew T. Corddry (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for managing objects. In one implementation, a computer-implemented method is provided. The method includes receiving a query comprising a tag and executing the query. An object identifier is retrieved from a data table, based on the tag. The method further returns a result of the query. The result includes the object identifier that was retrieved from the data tabl...