ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,996, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Network device address mapping" was invented by Burton Tracy Peake III (Nashville, Tenn.) and Chris S McGuire (Liberty Hill, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for determining mapping information for endpoints in a computer network are described. In an example, a system receives, from a first network device, a first request for mapping information associated with an endpoint such that the first network device can send traffic to the endpoint. The system sends, to a second network device based at least in part on the first request, a second request...