US Patent Issued to Oracle International on Aug. 26 for "Aggregating certificate authority certificates for authenticating network entities located in different trust zones" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,657, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Aggregating certificate authority certificates for authenticating network entities located in different trust zones" was invented by Haya Majeed (Mill Creek, Wash.), Tony Long (Edmonds, Wash.) and Mauruthi Geetha Mohan (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Operations of a certificate authority (CA) service may include aggregating in a certificate repository, a plurality of sets of CA certificates, in which each set of CA certificates is issued by a particular CA that is associated with a particular trust zone and that is trusted by a parti...