US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on March 18 for "Configuration of multiple secrets" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,886, issued on March 18, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Configuration of multiple secrets" was invented by Nicolas Harry Neate (Reading, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for managing secrets for accessing resources of a computing service provider by a client computing device. Two secrets are created that are valid for accessing the resource by the client computing device. When one of the two secrets are invalid for accessing the resource, the client computing device can use the second of the two secrets to gain access to the resource."

The patent was filed ...