ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,133, issued on July 14, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Service integration and management in a simulated environment" was invented by Anthony Barone (Wakefield, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are various embodiments for a simulation framework that facilitates the integration and management of multiple services in a software-in-the-loop simulated environment. A simulation runtime engine can deploy multiple services which may have dependencies upon one another in a simulated environment. Network service calls sent from one simulated services to another service may be intercepted to ensure that the ...