ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,645, issued on July 28, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Resource sharing between cloud-hosted virtual networks" was invented by Piyush Mathur (Sammamish, Wash.), Oleg Albe (Sammamish, Wash.), Ashish Kumar (Seattle), Joseph Elmar Magerramov (Bellevue, Wash.) and Nishant Mehta (Snoqualmie, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for resource sharing between cloud-hosted virtual networks are described. A first network address of a first virtual network is associated with a resource connected to a second virtual network, the first and second virtual networks within a cloud provider network. A service of the c...