US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 9 for "Localhost digital certificate discovery and reconciliation" (Minnesota, Texas, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,423, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Localhost digital certificate discovery and reconciliation" was invented by Billy Lee Grier (Austin, Texas), Joseph Michael Spitzer (Rochester, Minn.) and Christopher M. Wood (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method is provided. A number of processor units identify a number of certificates for a device within a network to obtain a file path for each certificate. The number of processor units perform an internal scan of the device to obtain a port number for each active port associated with network pr...