US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Feb. 3 for "Secure exchange of certificate authority certificate inline as part of file transfer protocol" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,772, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Secure exchange of certificate authority certificate inline as part of file transfer protocol" was invented by Donna Barry Lewis (Holly Springs, N.C.), Senthil Ponnuswamy (San Jose, Calif.), Mahadev Karadigudda (San Jose, Calif.) and Abhidnya Joshi (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for using certificate authority certificates inline as part of a file transfer protocol are described. A backup system may receive a request from a client system for a first secure communications channel secured with a previously-shared encryption key...