ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,997, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Linking resource instances to virtual network in provider network environments" was invented by Kevin Christopher Miller (Herndon, Va.), Andrew Bruce Dickinson (Seattle), Eric Wayne Schultze (Bellevue, Wash.), Ian Roger Searle (Bellevue, Wash.), Shane Ashley Hall (Kirkland, Wash.), Deepak Mohan (Bellevue, Wash.) and David Brian Lennon (Reston, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus that allow clients to connect resource instances to virtual networks in provider network environments via private IP. Via private IP linking methods and apparatus,...