ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,110, issued on July 15, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Certificate chaos test mode" was invented by Manikandan Subramanian (Seattle) and Michael S. Slaughter (Avondale Estates, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A certificate renewal service may receive an indication to request renewal of a certificate in a test mode that allows testing of certificate characteristic property change effects. The certificate renewal service may select, based on the renewal of the certificate being requested in the test mode, a renewal time for renewing of the certificate. The certificate renewal service may change, based on the re...