ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,529, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Reno, Nev.).

"Traffic estimations for networks" was invented by Atefeh Khosravi (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Traffic flow across a backbone network can be determined even though flow data may not be available from all network devices. Flow data can be observed using types of backbone devices, such as aggregation and transit devices. An algorithm can be applied to determine which data to utilize for flow analysis, where this algorithm can be based at least in part upon rules to prevent duplicate accounting of traffic being observed by multiple devices in the...