ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,768, issued on March 24, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Network device for network fabrics with harmonic connections" was invented by Giacomo Bernardi (Bologna, Italy), Ratul Mahajan (Seattle) and Saurabh Kumar (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device operating as a network node in a network fabric has a set of connection ports to provide a bandwidth capacity for the network device. The connection ports include fabric ports to connect with respective strands using multipoint optical connections. Each strand can connect network nodes of the network fabric according to a harmonic specify...