ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,519, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Network devices programmed with most-used routes" was invented by Tahir Azim (Artarmon, Australia), Benjamin Villain (Zetland, Australia), Andrey Sokolov (Glebe, Australia), Bobby Brown (Sydney), Lincoln Travis Dale (Santa Clara, Calif.), Stefan Christian Richter (Seattle) and Apoorv Srivastava (Sydney).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is disclosed for programming target devices with a filtered (reduced) set of route updates. The system can be divided into a backend system and a frontend system. The backend system analyzes all routes being used and ge...