ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,781, issued on July 22, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Interfaces to manage direct network peerings" was invented by Kevin Christopher Miller (Herndon, Va.), Andrew J. Doane (Vienna, Va.), Mahmoud A. Abuelela (Herndon, Va.) and Michael B. Furr (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for interfaces to manage direct network peerings. A system may include a data center, endpoint routers and a connectivity coordinator. The coordinator implements a programmatic interface defining connectivity operations. The coordinator receives a request for dedicated connectivity to data center resources, form...