ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,528, issued on May 27, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Transportation handoffs for increased network density" was invented by Ivan Borges Oliveira (Bellevue, Wash.), Golbarg Kazemi Tutunchi (Bellevue, Wash.), Quico Pepjin Spaen (Menlo Park, Calif.), Timothy Lee Jacobs (Seattle), Vighnesh Naik (Redmond, Wash.), Akhand Pratap Singh (Seattle), Suresh Rangaswamy (Seattle), Sendhil Nathan (Austin, Texas), Ian Ward (Seattle), Manik Kumar (Woodinville, Wash.) and Georgios Patsakis (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Transportation handoffs for increased network density are described herein. In an example, ...