US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Oct. 7 for "Role-based permission delegation in a provider network" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,872, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Role-based permission delegation in a provider network" was invented by Nikita Pinski (Vancouver, Canada), Jerry Connolly (Seattle), Dennis Tighe (Seattle), Christopher Richard Jacques De Kadt (Seattle), Rebecca Claire Weiss (Vienna, Va.), Brad E Marshall (Bainbridge Island, Wash.) and Akhilesh Mritunjai (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for role-based permission delegation in a provider network. The techniques include an assuming service in the provider network sending a request to a temporary credential service in the provider network to ass...