US Patent Issued to Oracle International on Feb. 24 for "Transitioning network entities associated with a virtual cloud network through a series of phases of a certificate bundle distribution process" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,966, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Transitioning network entities associated with a virtual cloud network through a series of phases of a certificate bundle distribution process" was invented by Jivan Joseph Madtha (Saratoga, Calif.), Bill Chau (Sammamish, Wash.) and Suryanarayanan Balasubramanian (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Network entities associated with a virtual cloud network are transitioned through a certificate bundle distribution process for distributing new certificate authority certificates to the network entities. Operations may include executin...