ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,486, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Video encoder network sandboxing" was invented by Eric Woodruff (Beaverton, Ore.), Akshat Aranya (Portland, Ore.), Varad Joshi (Portland, Ore.) and Rebecca Claire Weiss (Vienna, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first network namespace and second network namespace are created in a computing instance of a computer system, with the second network namespace being accessible to the first network namespace via an interface. A service is executed in the first namespace and an encoder is executed in the second namespace, with the encoder transforming media from ...