ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,742, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Seattle).

"Automated multi-region application recovery" was invented by John Paul Formento (Buckley, Wash.), Danilo Ayar Duran (Seattle), Christopher L. Cmolik (Santa Monica, Calif.), Shanshan Li (Chantilly, Va.) and Mikhail Ivanovich Golovnykh (Lake Oswego, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A recovery orchestrator system receives a recovery plan, which may be used for a hosted-computing environment. The recovery plan includes multiple steps. The recovery orchestrator system receives monitoring metrics. The recovery orchestrator system executes the recovery plan base...