US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Sept. 8 for "Customer-initiated virtual machine resource allocation sharing" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,683, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Customer-initiated virtual machine resource allocation sharing" was invented by Nikolay Krasilnikov (Seattle) and Benjamin Wojtowicz (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for customer-initiated virtual machine resource allocation sharing are described. A hardware virtualization service of a cloud provider network receives a request to launch a first virtual machine, wherein the first virtual machine is of a first virtual machine type, the first virtual machine type having a resource amount allocated to virtual machines of the first virtual...