ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,745, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Identity authority" was invented by Bryan James Donlan (Seattle), Petr Praus (Seattle), Douglas Stewart Laurence (Mercer Island, Wash.), Andrew C Schleit (Seattle), Daniel Leon Gregory Gardner (Blessington, Ireland) and Zaher Dannawi (Sammamish, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for rotating keys in a trust store to be used by a group of peer devices for secure communications between the peers in the group. In some examples, a service, such as an identify authority service, may make a determination that a set of peers that ...