ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,521, issued on May 6, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Low-latency paths for data transfers between endpoints which utilize intermediaries for connectivity establishment" was invented by Ethan Joseph Torretta (Edmonds, Wash.), Schuyler David Thompson (Seattle), Jose De Jesus Camacho Ruiz (Woodinville, Wash.), Aaron Graydon Bannert (Seattle) and Gowtham Kumar Puligundla (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network function execution intermediary obtains a result of execution of a set of network functions on a particular packet directed to a service from a client program running at a first host. Using th...