ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,168, issued on July 15, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Conditional access control policy finding generation" was invented by Kasper Soe Luckow (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Daniel George Peebles (Richland, Wash.) and Andrew Jude Gacek (Maple Grove, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for more precise access control policy findings, use a conditional injection of policy constraints into a findings analysis. The injection of a policy constraint of a policy being analyzed into the findings analysis is conditioned on the policy itself. In particular, the injection is conditioned on whether the policy constraint i...