ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,194, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Network architecture with harmonic connections" was invented by Giacomo Bernardi (Bologna, Italy), Ratul Mahajan (Seattle) and Saurabh Kumar (Los Altos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer network organized in a logical grid having rows and columns can include network nodes coupled according to harmonics. Each network node can be coupled to network nodes of the same row using a set of horizontal strands according to a set of horizontal harmonics. Each of the horizontal harmonics specifies a node distance along the row between adjacent connection...