ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,051, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to CAPITAL ONE SERVICES INC. (McLean, Va.).

"Systems and methods for hardware security module and physical safe integration" was invented by Srinivasa Chigurupati (Long Grove, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for integrating a physical safe with one or more hardware security modules ("HSMs") on a server rack may include a server rack with a biometric locking front door, one or more HSMs mounted and physically locked to the server rack, and a rack-mounted safe. The safe may be configured to fit entirely within the server rack when the server rack front door is closed, include...