ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,406, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Configuration hierarchy for updating storage engine configurations" was invented by Dhruv Deepak Upadhyay (San Jose, Calif.), Jonathan Robert Paulson (Seatte, Wash.) and Ye Sheng (Fremont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A configuration hierarchy may be used to update a storage engine configuration. A storage engine configuration manager may determine a storage engine configuration for a specific storage engine using a specified hierarchy of storage engine configurations that generate a composite of features from across different tiers of the hierarchy...