ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,673, issued on May 27, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Fleet-migration based network compatibility analysis" was invented by Christoph Saalfeld (Seattle), Travis Davidson Bybee (Seattle), Alexandra Elizabeth Baoboe Lee (Seattle), Eeshan Shreeram Thakar (Seattle), Artem Zhurid (Bellevue, Wash.) and Shijia Yang (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fleet-based migration system is described that can obtain requests to initiate network connections from individual client devices and divide the requests among one or more sets of endpoints with differing configurations. The endpoints initiate connection attempts bas...