ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,435, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Network configuration analysis and verification" was invented by Daniel William Dacosta (Saint Paul, Minn.), Nadia Labai (Redmond, Wash.), Patrick Trentin (Minneapolis), Lee Pike (Portland, Ore.), Samuel Bayless (Seattle), Syed Mubashir Iqbal (Redmond, Wash.), Nathan Launchbury (Seattle), Vaibhav Katkade (San Jose, Calif.), Shridhar Kulkarni (Fremont, Calif.), Devlin Roarke Dunsmore (Bothell, Wash.), Xiyuan Gou (Chicago), Baihu Qian (Chicago), Bashuman Deb (Aldie, Va.), Gaurav Sabharwal (Aldie, Va.), Sandeep Bajaj (San Ramon, Calif.) and Xiaoxi Lin (Ashburn, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by t...