ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,953, issued on July 14, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Mechanism for enforcing access control at scale to an internet service using transport layer security (TLS)" was invented by Sathyaprasad Srivatsa Ramaseshan (Issaquah, Wash.), Hyunsoo Choe (Kirkland, Wash.), Dhruva Gaidhani (Seattle), Ajit Domaji Rajurkar (Seattle), Shuai Wang (Bellevue, Wash.), Srikant Iyengar (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Sanket Mohanbhai Patel (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Zhiye Zhang (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for a scalable load balancer to enable client certificate access control using mutual transport l...