ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,707, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Modification of routing and forwarding information for cloud network traffic using customer-specified rules" was invented by Bashuman Deb (Aldie, Va.), Shridhar Kulkarni (Seattle), Brandon Michael LaRue (Alexandria, Va.), Omer Hashmi (Bethseda, Md.), Sandeep Bajaj (San Ramon, Calif.) and Ramin Ali Dousti (Ashburn, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Routing metadata, to be used at a transit gateway to transmit packets among a plurality of networks, is obtained from several routing information sources at a route processing node of a connectivity service. The nod...