US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on June 24 for "Reliable packet delivery through path diversification" (Oregon, California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,685, issued on June 24, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Reno, Nev.).

"Reliable packet delivery through path diversification" was invented by Ryan Hegar (Happy Valley, Ore.), Gregory Truax (Portland, Ore.), Michael Cronk (Sherwood, Ore.), Paul S. Nahlous (San Anselmo, Calif.) and Orlando Maldonado (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Approaches are disclosed for providing path diversity in a data transmission network. A primary transmission path can be selected through a network, such as a backbone network, based on factors such as cost of transmission. At least one waypoint can be selected that is to be included ...