US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Feb. 17 for "Decentralization of last resort recovery using secrets" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,412, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Decentralization of last resort recovery using secrets" was invented by Ofir Ezrielev (Be'er Sheba, Israel), Lee Serfaty (Be'er Sheba, Israel) and Yehiel Zohar (Sderot, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Reinstating access to a system of an admin whose certificate is invalid or expired is disclosed. A requestor may send a request for reinstatement to tenant admins. Only some of the tenant admins are authorized. If the request is received by an authorized tenant admin, the voting operation may be performed. If the request is received by an unauthorized t...