ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,521, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Systems and methods for distributed agent-based monitoring of cryptographic key stores" was invented by Ashutosh Bajpai (Haryana, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for agent-based monitoring of cryptographic key stores. The present disclosure is configured for receiving a digital certificate request from a requesting entity, interfacing with a certificate manager service configured to store a database for tracking lifecycle of digital certificates, generating and disseminating a n...