ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,994, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"Handling of certificates by intermediate actors" was invented by Theron Tock (Mountain View, Calif.), Vimalkumar Jeyakumar (Los Altos, Calif.), Harish Kumar Bharat Singh (Pleasanton, Calif.), Ying Xie (Cupertino, Calif.), Vikram Kapoor (Cupertino, Calif.) and Yijou Chen (Cupertino, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Handling of certificates by intermediate actors, including: receiving, by a proxy and from a client, a client certificate and a first private key; generating, by the proxy and based on the client certificate and the first private key, an intermed...