ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,047, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Network security based on a distributed network access and logical permission architecture" was invented by Yifan Jian (Kirkland, Wash.), Anirudhan Sudarsan (Everett, Wash.), Vimalanandan Thangamani (Everett, Wash.), Neelakantan Ganesan Sujatha (Redmond, Wash.), Amol Arvind Kothari (Redmond, Wash.) and Apurva Maharishi (Great Neck, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein can involve improved network security based on a distributed network access and logical permission architecture. In an example, a computer system can receive, by a f...