ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,783, issued on July 14, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Approximate duplicate event filter" was invented by Karl Eric Anderson (Columbia, Md.), Kelly Anne Rooker (Ellicott City, Md.), Nebi Mert Aydin (Odenton, Md.), Joshua Kupershmidt (Somerville, Mass.), Menachem Mendel Lerner (Baltimore), Samuel Macaluso (Arlington, Va.), Jacob A. Niebloom (Baltimore), Martin C Stonebraker (Sparks, Md.) and Aditya Tiwari (Woburn, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems of using an approximate duplicate event filter are disclosed. Event processing systems of a service provider network such as a security service ...