ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,686, issued on May 12, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Provider network deficiency management" was invented by Sean Patrick Maher (Seattle), Raghuveer Ketireddy (Redmond, Wash.), Trevor Tonn (Bellevue, Wash.) and David M. Wheeler (Mesa, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for provider network deficiency management includes a deficiency management computing system in a provider network having a machine-readable definition file and a knowledge graph. A method for provider network deficiency management includes receiving a machine-readable definition file and generating a knowledge graph based on the machin...