ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,850, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Distributing certificate bundles according to distribution schedules" was invented by Sneha Sudhakaran Nair (Burnaby, Canada), Tony Long (Edmonds, Wash.), Mauruthi Geetha Mohan (Seattle), Akshay Krishnath Dagade (Austin, Texas) and Jakub Wojciak (North Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Operations of a certificate bundle distribution service may include: detecting a trigger condition to distribute a certificate bundle that includes a set of one or more certificate authority certificates; partitioning each particular network ent...