ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,357, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"Managing key rotation for endpoint devices using re-keying rules" was invented by Bradley K. Goodman (Nashua, N.H.) and Joseph Caisse (Burlington, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for validating key rotation requests for endpoint devices are disclosed. The key rotation requests may be signed by one or more signing systems according to a set of re-keying rules for the endpoint device. The set of the re-keying rules may indicate that key rotation requests may be valid if signed using at least two different keys. The set of the re-keyi...