ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,168, issued on May 5, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Connector for private certificate authority and directory service" was invented by Kyle Benjamin Schultheiss (Centreville, Va.), Daniel Jiyoung Choi (Reston, Va.) and Divyansh Gupta (Arlington, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving, by a service operating in a provider network comprising a plurality of tenants, a request from a user device of one or more user devices in a user VPC of a first tenant of the plurality of tenants, wherein the request includes service identity information and authentication information. The method also includ...