ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,031, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Overlay networks of third-party virtualization frameworks using a cloud virtualized computing service as underlying infrastructure" was invented by Akshay Choudhry (Santa Clara, Calif.), Talha Kalim (Mississauga, Canada), Shuai Ye (Herndon, Va.), Matthew Browne Barr (Arlington, Va.), Aarthi Raju (San Jose, Calif.) and Taylor Wilbur Wright (Thomasville, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connectivity manager of an overlay network which is to be set up using resources of a cloud computing environment as an underlay network is instantiated at a computing reso...