ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,244, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Virtual service authorization" was invented by Gregory Branchek Roth (Seattle), Eric Jason Brandwine (Haymarket, Va.) and Graeme David Baer (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing resource service provides flexible configuration of authorization rules. A set of authorization rules which define whether fulfillment of requests. The set of authorization rules are applied to a request of a first type which is mapped to a request of a second type. The request of the second type is used for fulfillment of the request of the first type when the ...