ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,500, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to CLOUDFLARE INC. (San Francisco).
"Distributed key management system" was invented by Derek Chamorro (Austin, Texas), Michael Pak (Portland, Ore.), Ignat Korchagin (Orpington, Great Britain) and Chase Robinson (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributed key management system (KMS) includes a central KMS server and multiple intermediate KMS servers. The central KMS server replicates managed keys to the intermediate KMS servers. An intermediate KMS server receives a KMS service request from a KMS client, where any of the intermediate KMS servers are capable of servicing the request...