US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on July 28 for "Systems and methods for determining a shortest path between nodes" (California, Virginia, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,125, issued on July 28, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Systems and methods for determining a shortest path between nodes" was invented by Andrei Tanas (Vienna, Va.), Aaron Sterling Dean (Eatonville, Wash.), Michael Norris Rice (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Renato Werneck (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for determining a shortest path between nodes are provided. The systems and methods involve the use of a modified multi-level overlay (MLO) algorithm that allows for multiple potential paths to be computed at a rate that allows for more efficient delivery route planning in real-time or ...