ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,883, issued on March 18, was assigned to Keyfactor Inc. (Independence, Ohio).
"Remote certificate authority management" was invented by Jonathan Proch (Independence, Ohio), Edward Shorter (Munroe Falls, Ohio) and Rex Edward Wheeler (Portland, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject matter of this specification generally relates to cloud-hosted certificate lifecycle management (CLM) to on-premises certificate authority (CA) communication. In some implementations, a method includes receiving a task request specifying a requested task and an identifier specifying a location for task execution, determining the requested task and...