US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on May 19 for "Discovery and attestation of hardware security modules" (Virginia, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,126, issued on May 19, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Reno, Nev.).

"Discovery and attestation of hardware security modules" was invented by SengMing Yeoh (Arlington, Va.) and Graeme Farquharson (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Approaches presented herein relate to the providing of cryptographic-related functionality using shared computing resources. A fleet of hardware security modules (HSMs) can be similarly configured such that requests to perform cryptography-related tasks can be routed to any of the HSMs in the fleet. Additional HSMs can be connected, and those HSMs can be automatically discovered and au...