US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on July 29 for "Networking device that bridges virtual and physical computer networks" (Virginia, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,262, issued on July 29, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Networking device that bridges virtual and physical computer networks" was invented by Daniel Todd Cohn (Seattle), Eric Jason Brandwine (Haymarket, Va.) and Andrew J. Doane (Vienna, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for providing logical networking functionality for managed computer networks, such as for virtual computer networks provided on behalf of users or other entities. In some situations, a user may configure or otherwise specify a network topology for a virtual computer network, such as a logical network topology that separa...