ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,637, issued on July 8, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Virtual network interface objects" was invented by Eric W. Schultze (Bellevue, Wash.), Aaron C. Thompson (Seattle), Arijit Ganguly (Kirkland, Wash.), Padmini Chandrasekhar Iyer (Redmond, Wash.), Tobias L. Holgers (Seattle), Christopher J. Lefelhocz (Bothell, Wash.) and Ian Roger Searle (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for interfaces to manage virtual network interface objects. A system may include resource instances and a network interface virtualization coordinator. Responsive to a record creation request, the coordinator ...