ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,679, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Reno, Nev.).

"Managing unique secrets in distributed systems" was invented by Param Sharma (Haymarket, Va.), Todd Cignetti (Ashburn, Va.) and Trevor Freeman (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Approaches presented herein relate to the management of secure secrets in a distributed environment. In particular, various embodiments provide for the management of unique digital identities across multiple regions, where each region can include its own certificate authority. While these certificate authorities may operate independently, they can be part of a mult...