US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Dec. 9 for "Access control policy optimization" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,078, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Access control policy optimization" was invented by Akhilesh Mritunjai (Seattle), Christopher Richard Jacques De Kadt (Parksville, Canada), Emina Torlak (Seattle) and Neha Rungta (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques include optimizing a base access control policy, resulting in a residual access control policy, which is then indexed. Upon receiving an access request, the system retrieves the residual access control policy from the index using the request's attributes. The access request is then evaluated against the residual policy to mak...