ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,912, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"One-time-use secret bootstrapping in container-orchestrated environments" was invented by Rafael da Fonte Lopes da Silva (Porto Alegre, Brazil), Natalia Machado dos Santos (Porto Alegre, Brazil) and Mauricio Coutinho Moraes (Porto Alegre, Brazil).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example system includes a one-time-use secret (OTUS) deployer engine to: provide an OTUS within a container-orchestrated environment (COE). The example system further includes: a non-OTUS provider engine to: provide a non-OTUS in exchange for the OTUS; and, invalidate t...