ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,207, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Virtual provisioning with implementation resource boundary awareness" was invented by Marvin M. Theimer (Bellevue, Wash.), Peter DeSantis (Seattle) and Eric Jason Brandwine (Haymarket, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Virtual resources may be provisioned in a manner that is aware of, and respects, underlying implementation resource boundaries. A customer of the virtual resource provider may specify that particular virtual resources are to be implemented with implementation resources that are dedicated to the customer. Dedicating an implementation resourc...