ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,790, issued on July 22, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Multi-path transport design" was invented by Leah Shalev (London), Nafea Bshara (San Jose, Calif.), Georgy Machulsky (San Jose, Calif.) and Brian William Barrett (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a method including receiving, from a user application, data to be transmitted from a source address to a destination address using a single connection through a network; and splitting the data into a plurality of packets according to a communication protocol. For each packet of the plurality of packets, a respective flowlet for the ...