ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,527, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Nvidia Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Multi-factor authentication of cloud-managed services" was invented by Scott Wilson (Golden, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cloud management system (180) only instructs a storage platform (100) in a private domain to implement an operation that reveals, modifies, or destroys data if an administrator (163) both provides valid credentials and is able to direct a services processing unit or SPU (120) in the private domain to send a message with valid contents and signature. An SPU (120) only performs operations that reveal, modify, or destroy data if si...