ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,923, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Seattle).

"Managed activation of licensed software for resources in peered networks" was invented by Srinivasan Ramkumar (San Jose, Calif.), Rajesh Yarlagadda (San Jose, Calif.), Ramapulla Reddy Chennuru (Milpitas, Calif.), Raviprasad V Mummidi (Mountain View, Calif.), Juveria Kanodia (Saratoga, Calif.), Ramu Panayappan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Rajesh Gopidi (Alpharetta, Ga.) and Cai Liu (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for a license manager service of a cloud system to activate and run licensed applications in VPCs with peering connections (...