ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,197, issued on July 15, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Managing network services utilizing service groups" was invented by Yevgeny Schreiber (Baulkham Hills, Australia), Arvind Namasivayam (Sydney), Kin-Hon Chan (Sydney), Donavan Miller (Darlington, Australia) and Oren Nachman (St Ives, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network service incorporating service groups to increase fault tolerance and data isolation for integrated network services and client data is provided. The network service provider can process network requests utilizing individual service groups that correspond to a set of integrated se...