ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,633, issued on May 5, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Fast database scaling utilizing a decoupled storage and compute architecture" was invented by Andrew James Whitaker (Seattle), Meet Kiritkumar Bhagdev (Seattle), Sean Oczkowski (Seattle), Saleem Mohideen (Saratoga, Calif.), Alexandre Olegovich Verbitski (Woodinville, Wash.), Murali Brahmadesam (Tiruchirappalli, Tenn.), Navaneetha Krishnan Thanka Nadar (Bothell, Wash.), Li Che David Hsiao (Seattle), Apoorv Birthare (Seattle), Gajanan Sharadchandra Chinchwadkar (Fremont, Calif.) and Jan Engelsberg (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for fas...