ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,000, issued on May 27, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Publisher-subscriber architecture for video conferencing" was invented by Sean Patrick DuBois (Columbus, Ohio), Christopher LaFata (Moraga, Calif.), James Hurley (San Francisco), Raymond Kung Hsien Lin (Milpitas, Calif.), Alex Converse (Oakland, Calif.), Adam Lupinacci (Novato, Calif.), Maxwell Stoller (Astoria, N.Y.) and James Yamat (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are systems and methods for providing a publisher-subscriber architecture for audio and/or video conferencing. Embodiments of the present disclosure can utilize one edge...