ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,967, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Data store on a device and related access controls" was invented by Mansi Awasthi (Pune, India) and Russell Myers (Marietta, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data store of a device and related controls are described. For example, a first application of the device sends first data to the data store. The first data permits use of the data store by a plurality of applications. The first application receives second data from a second application executing remotely from the device and, based at least in part on the first data, sends the second data to the da...