ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,789, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Equinix Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Exchange interconnection using an interconnection token" was invented by Arifulla Baig Mohammad (Mountain House, Calif.), Sudhanva Gnaneshwar (Livermore, Calif.) and Lakshmi Sarath Prathipati (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a method includes generating, by an interconnection platform for an exchange, an interconnection token representing authorization for an interconnection to or from a resource of the exchange, wherein the interconnection token comprises a unique identifier and token data for requesting and provisioning...