ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,808, issued on July 14, was assigned to Cohesity Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Certificate management" was invented by Suresh Bysani Venkata Naga (San Jose, Calif.) and Apurv Gupta (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Metadata included in a certificate received from an application or service is analyzed. The application or service is permitted to communicate with other applications or services associated with a data management as a service infrastructure based on a version number associated with a storage tenant included in the analyzed metadata."

The patent was filed on Aug. 13, 2021, under Application No. 17/402,187.

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