ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,061, issued on May 26, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Hybrid network directory service" was invented by Dinesh Ramesh Kukreja (Lynnwood, Wash.), Ameya Chikodi (Seattle), Gurveer Singh Pahuja (Seattle), Dennis Rothmel (Westminster, Colo.), Joseph Donald Demate (Sammamish, Wash.) and Ashish Kumar (Renton, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for a hybrid network directory service are described. Messages forming a request to launch an instance within a cloud provider network are received, the messages including an identifier of a customer virtual network within the cloud provider network, the customer vir...