US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Jan. 13 for "Versioned policy collection management for certificate issuance" (Washington, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,159, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Versioned policy collection management for certificate issuance" was invented by Michael S Slaughter (Stone Mountain, Ga.), Trevoli Ponds-White (Seattle), Georgy Sebastian (Everett, Wash.) and James Darrin Flanagan (Coupeville, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A public certificate authority (CA) manages versioned sets of a collection of individual policies that serve as a basis for how a certificate issuance workflow processes certificate requests, and tracks the particular set of policies applied by the issuance workflow process to produce a particular ...