ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,238,106, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Troubleshooting policy-based permissions" was invented by Homer Strong (Seattle) and Lucie Klimosova (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more indications may be received of a decision to deny an attempted access of a computing resource by an identity. A plurality of relevant policies may be determined whose permissions are evaluated as inputs to the decision to deny. One or more denial-related policies of the relevant policies may be determined that are associated with at least one of explicitly denying or implicitly denying the attempted access. ...