ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,536, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Reno, Nev.).

"Transparent credential proxying" was invented by Eric Woodruff (Portland, Ore.), Ryan Hegar (Happy Valley, Ore.), Thomas Dytko (Portalnd, Ore.) and Bryce Bristow (Beaverton, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An application in a remote environment can manage service-owned resources in a service environment. A two-way proxying mechanism can include a proxy agent in the remote environment and a service proxy endpoint in the service environment. When an application in the remote environment submits a call to the service environment, that request can be inte...