US Patent Issued to HashiCorp on Nov. 4 for "Cloud-based secrets management credential store" (Maryland, Washington, Massachusetts, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,959, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to HashiCorp (San Francisco).

"Cloud-based secrets management credential store" was invented by Michael J. Gaffney (Perry Hall, Md.), Todd Knight (Tucson, Ariz.), James Lambert (Milford, Mass.), Jeff Mitchell (Boston) and Louis Carl Ruch (Vashon, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for accessing and using one or more networked services of a cloud computing infrastructure by a user of a client computer includes an identity-based access management system that is configured to receive a request for a session via an API to use a specific service of the one or more networked services...