US Patent Issued to Oracle International on July 28 for "Key reuse in a cloud environment" (American, Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,603, issued on July 28, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Canada).

"Key reuse in a cloud environment" was invented by Peter Martin Hanily (Dublin), Ryan Daniel Schilcher (Seattle), Christopher Robert Baker (Nashua, N.H.) and Jonathan Philip Taimanglo (Arlington, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for detected reuse of a public key of a public/private cryptographic key pair within a cloud environment are disclosed. A database maintained within a cloud environment is accessed, the database storing a plurality of public keys. Each public key has a corresponding attribute, and the database further sto...