ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,095, issued on March 3, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Transaction processing at edge servers in a content distribution network" was invented by Ronil Sudhir Mokashi (Mercer Island, Wash.), Prashant Verma (Seattle) and Karthik Uthaman (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of apparatuses and methods for transaction processing at edge servers in a content distribution network ("CDN") are described. In some embodiments, an edge server receives an initial request from a client for content associated with a particular origin, and then provides the content to the client. The edge server can then ...