ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,816, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Entrust Corp. (Shakopee, Minn.).

"Centralized compliance management platform for security objects" was invented by Michael Gerhard Loger (Munich), Tushar Tambay (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Shardul Divatia (Fremont, Calif.), Elsa Bignoli (San Carlos, Calif.), Lucas Crawford (San Jose, Calif.), Laxmana Kumar Bhavandla (Pfugerville, Texas), Mang Kang Yong (Concorde, Calif.) and Patti Powers (Auburn, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A centralized compliance platform usable to manage security policies associated with security objects, such as keys, secrets, and certificates. Such a centralized complia...