US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on March 4 for "Distributed evaluation of networking security rules" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,648, issued on March 4, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Distributed evaluation of networking security rules" was invented by Dheerendra Talur (Sammamish, Wash.), Venkat Maithreya Paritala (Seattle), Abhishek Chhajer (Seattle), Charlie Jahchan (Seattle) and Yogeshkumar Kuite (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plurality of security rule processing nodes is configured for network traffic of a set of sources and destinations. Respective subsets of configuration information of the sources and destinations, including security rules, are transmitted to the nodes. Respective addresses of at least a subset...