US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Aug. 5 for "Time-based credential validity period reduction" (Washington, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,884, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Time-based credential validity period reduction" was invented by Blake P Hess (Lake Forest Park, Wash.), Marcel Andrew Levy (Seattle) and Chandan Kundapur (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A credential management system with time-based credential validity period reduction is disclosed. The credential management system, responsive to determining to renew a current version of a time-based security credential, determines a validity time period length for a renewal version of the time-based security credential based on (1) a validity time period lengt...