ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,942, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Access management for a multi-endpoint data store" was invented by Michael Sturgis Terkowitz (Seattle) and Seema Pradeep Degwekar (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for providing a mapping service for distributed data storage systems includes a plurality of computing devices configured to implement a service provider network. The service provider network includes a plurality of endpoints corresponding to a plurality of data servers. Each data server of the plurality of data servers is configured to receive, from a client, a request for client dat...