US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on July 1 for "Automated policy refiner for cloud-based identity and access management systems" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,529, issued on July 1, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Automated policy refiner for cloud-based identity and access management systems" was invented by Neha Rungta (Seattle), Chungha Sung (Seattle), Amit Goel (Seattle), Zvonimir Rakamaric (Seattle) and Loris D'Antoni (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for providing a policy refiner application used to analyze and recommend modifications to identity and access management policies created by users of a cloud provider network (e.g., to move the policies toward least-privilege permissions). A policy refiner application receives as input a...