ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,080, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Automated packetless network reachability analysis" was invented by Catherine Dodge (Seattle), Nikhil Reddy Cheruku (Falls Church, Va.), John Byron Cook (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Temesghen Kahsai Azene (Union City, Calif.), William Jo Kocik (Charles Town, W.va.), Sean Mclaughlin (Seattle), Mark Edward Stalzer (Arlington, Va.), Blake Whaley (Fairfax, Va.) and Yiwen Wu (Fairfax, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for automated packetless network reachability analysis are disclosed. An analysis is performed of network configu...