US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Nov. 11 for "Improving decentralization of last resort recovery using secrets" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,373, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Improving decentralization of last resort recovery using secrets" was invented by Ofir Ezrielev (Be'er Sheba, Israel), Lee Serfaty (Be'er Sheba, Israel) and Yehiel Zohar (Sderot, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Reinstating access to a system of an admin whose certificate is invalid or expired is disclosed using a secret that is remapped. When the admin's certificate is expired, the admin may send a request for reinstatement to tenant admins. The voting operation is based on shares of a secret that have been distributed to validators. When the shares ...