ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,117, issued on June 17, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Visualization of network health information" was invented by Kenneth Grey Richards (Newcastle, Wash.), Schuyler David Thompson (Seattle), Adam Siefker (Lynnwood, Wash.), Kevin Christopher Miller (Fairfax, Va.) and Meenakshi Rameshkumar (Kenmore, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A determination is made that a graphical representation of network health state information pertaining to a client account of a provider network is to be provided. Using respective network metrics groups corresponding to several data sources, a network health state descriptor corr...