ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,425, issued on June 2, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Secure connectivity from external clients to dynamically changing cloud resource groups" was invented by Devlin Roarke Dunsmore (Bothell, Wash.), Bashuman Deb (Aldie, Va.), Aditya Chayapathy (Seattle), Michael P Quinn (Las Vegas), Rajat Tyagi (Seattle), Shovan Kumar Das (Medina, Wash.), Thomas Nguyen Spendley (Rockville, Md.), Anoop Dawani (Redmond, Wash.), Sujan Bolisetti (Lake Stevens, Wash.) and Benjamin Wojtowicz (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endpoint for accessing a group of cloud resources from a set of client devices outside t...