ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,064, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Unified network traffic controllers for multi-service environments" was invented by Timothy A. Gilman (Puyallup, Wash.), Houman Hassani Jalilian (Seattle) and Taras Alenin (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more multi-service network traffic controllers are established for a distributed system. The controllers are connected to traffic control implementation units at a first service and a second service. Based at least in part on data collected from a traffic control implementation unit deployed at the second service, a modification to be made to ...