US Patent Issued to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development on Oct. 21 for "Efficient key management in distributed application" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,220, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Efficient key management in distributed application" was invented by Keith D. Underwood (Powell, Tenn.) and Duncan Roweth (Bristol, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus facilitating efficient key refresh in a node is provided. During operation, the apparatus can determine a collective operation initiated by the node. The node can include a processor and can be in a distributed system comprising a plurality of nodes. The collective operation can be performed by a subset of the plurality of nodes in conjunction with ...