ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,783, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Content management system" was invented by Kenny Xie (New York), Maan Shamoon (La Messa, Calif.), Amanda Josephine Sambawa (Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.) and Joseph David Wolf (Alexandria, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A content management system is provided. The content management system (CMS) uses a unique content modeling architecture using nested, reusable data entities, as well as a method for constructing a system around those entities to enable features and automation within the CMS. The solution's novelty lies in (1) a mechanism for efficiently and r...