US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on March 25 for "Authorization policy validation" (Maryland, Washington, District Of Columbia, California, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,888, issued on March 25, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Authorization policy validation" was invented by Michael W. Hicks (Silver Spring, Md.), John Holman Kastner (Washington), Emina Torlak (Seattle), Richard Matthew McCutchen (Rockville, Md.), Darin McAdams (Bremerton, Wash.), Neha Rungta (San Jose, Calif.), Aaron Joseph Eline (Reisterstown, Md.), Joseph Wallace Cutler (Arlington, Va.) and Eleftherios Ioannidis (Arlington, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for authorization policy validation. A validator takes as input an authorization policy to be analyzed and a schema that specifies ent...