US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Feb. 17 for "Establishing and maintaining trusted communication channels between microservices" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,405, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Establishing and maintaining trusted communication channels between microservices" was invented by Wojciech Ozga (Zurich), Tamas Visegrady (Zurich) and Patricia M. Sagmeister (Adliswil, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A CIM, according to one approach, includes: issuing, from a first microservice, a handshake request to a second microservice. In response, a verification request is received at the first microservice from the second microservice. Moreover, in response to receiving the verification request, a first secure element cor...