US Patent Issued to Akamai Technologies on Jan. 13 for "Federated secret management for workload instances in cloud compute platforms" (Massachusetts, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,518, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Akamai Technologies Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Federated secret management for workload instances in cloud compute platforms" was invented by Peter Bohman (Cincinnati) and Gregory Bird (Medway, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A secret management infrastructure federates with a cloud compute platform to store, issue, track and revoke secrets issued to workload instances. A workload instance can be provisioned with a token and can present that token to the secret management infrastructure (SMI) in exchange for a credential. In addition to validating the token itself, the SMI can verify whethe...