ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,946, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Programmatic threat intelligence aggregation and distribution system" was invented by Cydney Stude (Chesapeake, Va.), Hart Matthew Rossman (Vienna, Va.), Ricarte De Vera (Austin, Texas), Jeremy Lowry (Falls Church, Va.), Allison Grace DeCastro (South Weymouth, Mass.), Nathan Brock Bates (Silver Spring, Md.), Matthew Harvey (Chesapeake, Va.), Nauman Charania (Seattle), Matthew I Bretan (Irvine, Calif.), Ben Fletcher (Dublin), Shannon Diane Brazil (Canmore, Canada) and Richard Billington (Kenmore Hills, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for enh...