ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,570, issued on March 24, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Reno, Nev.).

"Policy-as-code for data assets and remediation in cloud environments" was invented by Scott Renda (Seattle), Aleatha Parker-Wood (Palo Alto, Calif.), Amandeep Khurana (Burlingame, Calif.) and Jai Prakash Chabria (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and supporting method enable receipt of a computer-coded policy for execution in a control plane associated with a cloud environment to provide data governance in a data plane using one or more data assets of the cloud environment, where the one or more data assets are automatically associ...