ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,023, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Message replication latency management using scalable virtual gateways" was invented by Baihu Qian (Chicago), Christopher Todd Morse (Broadlands, Va.), Mohammad Atiek Arian (Surrey, Great Britain), Adam Lewis Palmer (East Grinstead, Great Britain), Michael Angelo Perna (Oakland, N.J.) and Boris Litvin (Livingston, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A routing decisions node (RDN) of a virtual gateway established for traffic of an application group generates a replication graph representing paths for replicating messages from a message producer of the applica...