US Patent Issued to Wells Fargo Bank on Aug. 4 for "Key management using attribute certificates (KXAC)" (Missouri Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,993, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Key management using attribute certificates (KXAC)" was invented by Jeffrey J. Stapleton (O'Fallon, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media including providing an attribute certificate to a Key Receiving Device (KRD). The attribute certificate indicates that the KRD is bound to a Key Distribution Host (KDH) for key distribution. A whitelist is provided to the KDH. The whitelist includes a list of at least one KRD bound to the KDH."

The patent was filed on March 30...