ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,528, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Key request management" was invented by Melchior Dirk Frederik Aelmans (Voorschoten, Netherlands), Gert Grammel (Ditzingen, Germany) and Sabyasachi Mukhopadhyay (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a network device may transmit a key request and a proposed key request rate associated with the key request. The network device may receive a response to the key request based on the proposed key request rate. In some implementations, a network device may transmit a key request. The network device may rec...