US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Oct. 14 for "Cluster-wide root secret key for distributed node clusters" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,268, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Cluster-wide root secret key for distributed node clusters" was invented by Prashant Dewan (Portland, Ore.), Andreea Mihaela Pintilie (Cambridge, Great Britain), Mark Andrew Cawston (King's Lynn, Great Britain) and Kaloyan Aleksandro Aleksiev (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for implementing a cluster-wide root secret ("CWRS") key for distributed node clusters. In a multi-node cluster, a leader node has a leader node security system that generates the CWRS key, which is a common secret key for all workl...