ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,052, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Remote controlled hardware security module" was invented by Marcel Catalin Rosu (Mount Kisco, N.Y.) and Timothy Matthew Dierks (Brooklyn, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are computer systems and methods that enable the remote control of a hardware security module (HSM) device. In particular, aspects of the present disclosure enable HSM device management to be split into two components: physical management, which can be handled by a cloud provider or other IT service provider; and logical management, which can be performed by the HSM end user. Th...