ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,423, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Hybrid serverless computing and durable computing search service" was invented by Ali Koc (Smithtown, N.Y.), Dac Hoang Thien An Ta (Brooklyn, N.Y.), John Espenhahn (San Francisco), Nitya Dhimantkumar Sheth (Belmont, Calif.), Rajat Mathur (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Amit Gul Phagwani (Fremont, Calif.) and George Steven McPherson (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid serverless computing and durable computing search system provides low-latency search by maintaining domain specific search indices in memory or storage, while also allowing for low-cost serv...