ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,481, issued on June 17, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Dynamic physical data transfer routing" was invented by Ryan Michael Eccles (Seattle), Siddhartha Roy (Sammamish, Wash.), Vaibhav Tyagi (Seattle), Wayne William Duso (Charlestown, Mass.) and Danny Wei (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described herein for routing data by transferring a physical storage device for at least part of a route between source and destination locations. In one example, a computing resource service provider, may receive a request to transfer data from a customer center to a data center. The service provi...