ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,951, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Seattle).

"Dynamic threat detection for diverse databases" was invented by Abishek Sankararaman (San Francisco), Sriram Manohar (Seattle), Joseph Skinner (Renton, Wash.), Saumya Gaurang Shah (Santa Clara, Calif.), Balakrishnan Narayanaswamy (San Jose, Calif.) and Farnam Mohasseb (North Vancovuer, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques for database threat detection are described. First login data for a first database that includes a first aggregation key may be received. A first counter that tracks first events associated with the first database ma...