ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,695, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Data security" was invented by Sourav Roy (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Robin Alan Golden (Los Gatos, Calif.), Tigran Sukiasyan (Vancouver, Canada), Lawrence Webley (Woodinville, Wash.), Somasekhar Sista (San Ramon, Calif.) and Francisco Lopez Liebana (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described techniques and systems can obtain a request to process metric data based on observation of a computer-implemented resource. The request can be authenticated. Based at least on authenticating the request, the request can be augmented to include data linked to th...