US Patent Issued to Dell Products on March 24 for "Secret management in distributed systems" (Massachusetts, New York, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,365, issued on March 24, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Secret management in distributed systems" was invented by Bradley K. Goodman (Nashua, N.H.), Joseph Caisse (Burlington, Mass.) and Eric Joseph Bruno (Shirley, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for managing secrets are disclosed. To manage secrets, backups of the secrets may be obtained to facilitate future recoveries of the secrets. While backed up, the secrets may be secured with a security model. The security model may prescribe how entities that manage the backups are to operate, how encryption and decryption keys are maintained,...