US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on March 24 for "Trusted root recovery" (Dutch, American, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,754, issued on March 24, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Trusted root recovery" was invented by Cristian Iuliu Pop (Redmond, Wash.), Michiel van Schaik (Amsterdam), Arturo Lotito (Bergamo, Italy), Mahesh Sham Rohera (Sammamish, Wash.), Benjamin Livesley Thomas (Seattle) and David John Roth (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device is provisioned to communicate with a cloud service provider when the device is unable to establish a secure connection due to an invalid root certificate authority (CA) certificate installed at the device. The cloud service provider establishes a temporar...