US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Feb. 17 for "Command to provide key manager status" (New York, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,524, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Command to provide key manager status" was invented by Pasquale A. Catalano (Wallkill, N.Y.), Michael James Becht (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), Christopher J Colonna (Ossining, N.Y.) and Stephen Robert Guendert (Murfreesboro, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A receiving network device of a network obtains a command built to enable a control program of a device coupled to the receiving network device to provide to the receiving network device status of a key manager. The receiving network device obtains the status from the command uses the statu...