ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,859, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Selecting an HSM for association to a secure guest" was invented by Reinhard Theodor Buendgen (Tuebingen, Germany), Viktor Mihajlovski (Wildberg, Germany), Jonathan D. Bradbury (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), Harald Freudenberger (Fellbach, Germany), Steffen Eiden (Boblingen, Germany), Volker Urban (Boblingen, Germany) and Eric David Rossman (Hopewell Junction, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for a policy-based association of a hardware security module to a secure guest is disclosed. The method comprises maintaining a binding between a s...