ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,357, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to THALES DIS CPL USA INC. (Austin, Texas).

"System and method supporting data residency requirement in cloud hosted hardware security modules" was invented by Prateek Saxena (Noida, India), Danish Parvez (New Delhi) and Shivam Garg (Noida, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provides is a system and method supportive of data residency requirements that includes a Hardware Security Module (HSM) hosted on a cloud environment and a location tracker embedded within or directly connected to the HSM to provide an HSM location, the HSM including one or more processors and memory including computer inst...