ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,563, issued on May 6, was assigned to AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Seattle).

"Dual-stack network addressing in cloud provider network edge locations" was invented by Upendra Bhalchandra Shevade (Washington), Shridhar Kulkarni (Seattle), Christopher Barclay (Seattle), Ishwardutt Parulkar (San Francisco), Dougal Stuart Ballantyne (Seattle), Diwakar Gupta (Seattle) and Georgios Elissaios (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for utilizing dual-stack network addressing for compute instances hosted in an edge location of a cloud provider network along with communications service provider (CSP) network addresses are described. A ...