ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,610, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Routing protocol processing intermediaries for cloud computing environments" was invented by Ammar Latif (Jupiter, Fla.), Mathew Wolfgang Walter Lehwess (San Francisco), Young Ha Jung (Frisco, Texas), Christian Joseph Martin (Rumson, N.J.) and Ishwardutt Parulkar (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dynamic routing information exchange protocol session is established between a protocol processing intermediary and an application pipeline function executor running at a virtualized computing service. During the session, the intermediary receives a me...