ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,006, issued on July 15, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Data access tracking service" was invented by Eric Jason Brandwine (Haymarket, Va.), Jennifer Anne Brinkley (Portland, Ore.), Min Lee Hyun (Lorton, Va.), Mark Becker (Potomac, Md.) and Ryan Christopher Holland (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are described for tracking and providing access reports for individual pieces of data managed by a data storage service. A service may generate and store a record of operations performed on a piece of data, such that may be classified as containing sensitive or important data, in a data sto...