US Patent Issued to Rapid7 on April 29 for "Using cached summaries for efficient access analysis for cloud provider entities" (Virginia, Massachusetts, District Of Columbia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,346, issued on April 29, was assigned to Rapid7 Inc. (Boston).

"Using cached summaries for efficient access analysis for cloud provider entities" was invented by Matthew Gladney (Boston), Elizabeth Prescott (Fairfax, Va.), Niluka Bamunuarachchige (Centreville, Va.), Leonardo Colmenares (Washington), James Martin (Washington), Peter Snelgrove (Annandale, Va.) and Nadia Mounzih (Washington).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An access policy analysis system may use stored policy summaries to efficiently perform access analysis. A request that causes an access analysis of an entity in a cloud service provider with respect to a resource hosted...