ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,209, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Restricted access control in multi-tenant systems using tenant-specific security principals" was invented by Garret Michael Fick (New York), Brad Boswell (Seattle), Balaji Narayanan Iyer (Novi, Mich.), William Leslie Kruger (Westford, Mass.) and Dain Steenberg (Renton, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for restricted access control in multi-tenant systems using tenant-specific security principals are described. A multi-tenant system can define a tenant-specific security principal for a particular workload, and a separate resource owner can as...