ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,720, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Replicated secrets can be migrated from a cloud environment to a local system. For example, a system can receive a secret stored in a first geographic region and a second geographic region of a cloud environment. The system can determine a first security level associated with a first source location of the secret and a second security level associated with a seco...