ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,068, issued on July 21, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Dynamically determining shared computing resources for executing actions in an application workflow configuration" was invented by Nitin Gujral (Bothell, Wash.), Mike Paul Spertus (Chicago) and Ranjith Ramakrishnan (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Shared computing resources may be determined for executing actions in an application workflow configuration. An application workflow configuration that describes a workflow that includes actions with respective action code executable to perform the actions may be obtained. Execution of the workflow ...