ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,134, issued on June 23, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Cloud-based testing and improvement of data quality for machines at a client site" was invented by Aarthi Ravi (San Jose, Calif.), Mihir Kumar Choudhary (Morgan Hill, Calif.), Sharad Singh (Fremont, Calif.), Kai Fan Tang (Port Coquitlam, Canada), Valery Yalauchuk (London) and Stephen Haines (Danville, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data conformance service determines, based at least on an information model of a machine at a remote site of a client, cloud test code to be executed by the data conformance service to perform at least a first type of con...