ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,173, issued on June 23, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Management of data events in a datalake environment using data contracts" was invented by Nikhilesh Singh (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Avneendra Arun (Ashburn, Va.), Radhika Venkataraman (Ashburn, Va.), Neeraj Padarthi (Reston, Va.), Ashu Razdan (Kirkland, Wash.), Matthew Thomas Bade (Seattle) and Mahesh Mishra (Plainfield, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, and methods are provided for processing data events in a datalake environment using data contracts. Techniques described herein may be utilized to decouple data acquisition from data ingestion to...