ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,156, issued on April 7, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Providing extendible network capabilities for managed computer networks" was invented by Daniel T. Cohn (Oakland, Calif.), Eric Jason Brandwine (Haymarket, Va.) and Andrew J. Doane (Vienna, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for managing communications between multiple computing nodes, such as for computing nodes that are part of managed virtual computer networks provided on behalf of users or other entities. In some situations, one or more of the computing nodes of a managed virtual computer network is configured to perform actions ...