ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,744, issued on July 14, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Immutable resource retention rules for resource recovery service" was invented by Sandeep Kumar (Sammamish, Wash.), Venkatesh Nagapudi (San Jose, Calif.), Ankit Singh (Sammamish, Wash.), Shengjie Quan (Bellevue, Wash.) and Edwin Ma (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a system for facilitating recovery of deleted computing resources in a cloud network environment. A centralized resource recovery service may communicate with a plurality of resource management services that are each configured to create, modify, or delete their respective comput...