ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,922, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Role-based authorization for wireless network management services" was invented by Matthew James Richards (San Francisco), Andrey Perminov (Dublin, Calif.), Ryan N. Thompson (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Lucas Michael Cycon (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technology for mesh network management including role-based authorization for wireless network management services is described. In one embodiment, a wireless mesh device receives, from a requesting device, a request to establish a secure communication session, authenticates the client certificate and ...