ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,758, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Scalable network traffic shaping service with dynamically configured partitions" was invented by Ethan Joseph Torretta (Edmonds, Wash.), Chaithan Mysore Prakash (Seattle), Kirk Arlo Petersen (Nevada City, Calif.) and Michael Weyandt (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Packets received at a routing intermediary and directed to a resource are transmitted to a data plane node of a partition of a traffic management service. The data plane node transmits an indication of a high-arrival-rate destination group, identified based on a metric of network pa...