US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 16 for "Securing sensitive data in a container management system" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,297, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Securing sensitive data in a container management system" was invented by Qi Feng Huo (Beijing), Da Li Liu (Beijing), Yuan Yuan Wang (Beijing), Lei Li (Beijing) and Yan Song Liu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach is provided for securing a secret for usage by an application utilizing a client to retrieve secrets. A request is sent from a client in a workload container within a trusted execution environment (TEE) to retrieve an encrypted secret from an application programming interface (API) server outside the TEE. The req...