ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,149, issued on June 17, was assigned to AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Seattle).

"Least privilege network access controls advisor" was invented by Samuel Bayless (Seattle), John David Backes (Minneapolis), Vaibhav Katkade (San Jose, Calif.), Daniel William Dacosta (Saint Paul, Minn.), Syed Mubashir Iqbal (Redmond, Wash.), Nadia Labai (Redmond, Wash.), Patrick Trentin (Minneapolis), Nikolaos Giannarakis (Seattle), Nathan Launchbury (Seattle) and Divya Raghunathan (Princeton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques implemented by a network-access analysis system to analyze network access controls for networks, identify traffic flows ...