US Patent Issued to Tanium on June 30 for "Efficient management of certificates on an enterprise network" (North Carolina, Washington, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,595, issued on June 30, was assigned to Tanium Inc. (Emeryville, Calif.).

"Efficient management of certificates on an enterprise network" was invented by Kaitlyn Shirk (Gig Harbor, Wash.), Michael Ryan (Downers Grove, Ill.), William Green (Rolesville, N.C.) and Eric Dutko (Hillsborough, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementation(s) for acquiring new certificates on behalf of managed endpoints. For example, new certificates are acquired by: identifying a managed endpoint associated with a current certificate and corresponding current private key to be renewed; sending a first one or more messages to the managed endpoint to cau...