ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,571, issued on July 1, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Network configuration analysis and management" was invented by Baihu Qian (Chicago), Bashuman Deb (Aldie, Va.), Justin Lin Hsieh (Chicago), Daniel William Dacosta (Saint Paul, Minn.), Nick Matthews (Westminster, Colo.), Viktor Heorhiadi (Seattle), Lalith Kumar Ramamoorthi (Brambleton, Va.), Anoop Dawani (Redmond, Wash.), Omer Hashmi (Bethesda, Md.) and Thomas Nguyen Spendley (Rockville, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for obtaining policy data associated with a private network implemented at least partly within a cloud provi...