ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,571, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Private alias endpoints for isolated virtual networks" was invented by Kevin Christopher Miller (Herndon, Va.), Richard Alexander Sheehan (Dublin), Douglas Stewart Laurence (Mercer Island, Wash.), Marwan Salah El-Din Oweis (Olney, Md.) and Andrew Bruce Dickinson (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with a designation of a private alias endpoint as a routing target for traffic directed to a service from within an isolated virtual network of a provider network, a tunneling intermediary receives a baseline packet generated at a compute instance...