US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Oct. 14 for "Network namespace monitoring system" (Virginia, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,409, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Network namespace monitoring system" was invented by Donald Lee Bailey Jr. (Rockingham, Va.), Abigail Fuller (Seattle), John Paul Torres (Shoreline, Wash.) and Giulian Dalton Luz (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A namespace monitoring service may track released namespaces such as internet protocol (IP) addresses and manage namespace cooldown pools, available namespace pools, and a registry of released namespaces to detect and mitigate security vulnerabilities that arise from reassignment of namespaces. The namespace monitoring service provides...