ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,776, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Route hijack mitigation" was invented by Jonathan Phillibert (Seattle), Kushal Mall (Issaquah, Wash.), Michael Marano (Federal Way, Wash.), Bobby Brown (Sydney), Mario Souza (Dublin), Eric Andrew Rubin-Smith (Fairfax, Va.), Thomas Bradley Scholl (Seattle) and Michael W. Palladino (Renton, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies are disclosed for mitigating attempts to capture traffic on a network using unauthorized advertisements. Responsive to detecting an authorized advertisement for a path to a service on the network, a mitigation/orchestration ...