ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,621, issued on May 5, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Unified data access system" was invented by Rahul Easwar (Issaquah, Wash.), Jose Kunnackal John (Bellevue, Wash.), Vinay Chopra (Bellevue, Wash.), Andrey Zubkov (Bothell, Wash.), Viraj Sanghvi (Seattle), Tracy Daugherty (Bonney Lake, Wash.) and Daniel Sunoh Choe (Plymouth, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are disclosed for configuring and processing multiple types of data presentation objects in a unified data access system. An interface of the unified data access system may facilitate the configuration of both report data presentation...