ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,092, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Accessing account data based on access tokens" was invented by Qiang Tu (Redmond, Wash.), Lucun Cai (Bellevue, Wash.), David Jason Jones (Burlingame, Calif.), Matthew Douglas Hasten (Seattle) and Santhoshi Jagadeeshan (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for generating and associating accounts in support of communication sessions are described. In an example, a system receives, from a first device, input data indicating that an action is requested, the input data associated with a first account. The system determines that a second account is to...