US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on March 25 for "Systems and methods for server-based trust store discovery" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,966, issued on March 25, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Reno, Nev.).

"Systems and methods for server-based trust store discovery" was invented by Marcel Andrew Levy (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated server-based scheme allows a hosted service such as an individual computer system, computer application, or network service, to infer root certificate authorities present in client trust stores. Presenting a random selection of one or more digital certificates to a given client seeking a favorite icon URL, in response to a Transport Layer Security (TLS) connection request from the client, allows the service ...