ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,538, issued on March 31, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Multi-processor communication framework using TCP/IP architecture" was invented by Praveen Chebolu (Leander, Texas), Venkateshwar Junnuthulla (Leander, Texas), Kranthi Thimmapuram (Cedar Park, Texas) and Shanthini Chetlur Kannan (Sterling, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-processor communication framework (MCF) based on Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) architecture is defined that can be used for inter-processor communication between heterogenous processing nodes. The MCF includes an application layer, a transport layer, a...