ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,867, issued on May 12, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Determining a result filter for requests to key-value data stores" was invented by Andrea Giuliano (Dublin) and Robert Crossan (Foxrock, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Results for search requests to key-value data stores may be dynamically filtered. A search request may include keys for performing the search request with respect to key value data stores. The number of values for the keys included in the key value data store may be used to determine filtering criteria for the search request. The filtering criteria may be applied as part of generating a ...