ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,662, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).
"Serial number generation for stateless cloud certificate authority" was invented by Marc Rahn (Mannheim, Germany), Nils Neumann (Leimen, Germany) and Moritz Falke (Leimen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system associated with a public key infrastructure certificate framework in a cloud computing environment may include a certificate authority data store that contains information about a plurality of certificate authority instances (with each certificate authority instance being associated with an instance index and an instance deployment time). A certifi...