ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,877, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"User-defined network connectors between serverless functions and isolated cloud resources" was invented by Dharani Sankar Vijayakumar (Palo Alto, Calif.), Robert Laks (Seattle), Sushant Bhatia (Kirkland, Wash.), Ravi S Nagayach (Aurora, Ill.) and Prashant Kumar Singh (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for facilitating network traffic between serverless function executions and isolated cloud resources within virtualized network environments. Virtualized network environments, by default, may be isolated such that external t...