ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,749, issued on June 23, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Migrating secrets from a cloud environment to a local system" was invented by Leigh Griffin (Waterford, Ireland), Andrea Cosentino (Rome) and Paolo Antinori (Novara, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Secrets can be migrated from a cloud environment to a local system. For example, a computing system can receive a secret stored in a cloud environment from a secret manager associated with the cloud environment. The computing system can identify a source location associated with the secret. The secret can map to a location identifier representing a geographic regio...