ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,786, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Permission controls from a first provider for a second provider" was invented by Pierrot Christophe (Liberty Township, Ohio) and Magdalena Hawkins (Valley Cottage, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for permission controls from a first provider for a second provider are described. In an example, a computer system stores first account data of a user with a first service provider. The first account data enables execution of a first online service of the first service provider to provide a second online service of a second service provider. The co...