ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,307, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Data access control in data processing applications" was invented by Jalpan Randeri (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Rahul Bhartia (Seattle) and Mehul Y. Shah (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for data access control in data processing applications are described. A portion of user code including a first data access directed to a data source is received from an application. An identity associated with the portion of user code is obtained. A policy including an access control rule that limits access to the data source based at least in part on the ...