ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,032, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Orchestrating distribution of digital certificates to an execution environment of a computing network" was invented by Jivan Joseph Madtha (Saratoga, Calif.), Ayman Elakhwas (Austin, Texas) and Bill Chau (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system executes a first testing process utilizing a sandbox sub-environment executing in an execution environment of a computing network to perform a first set of testing operations associated with a new certificate bundle that includes a new CA certificate. Responsive to successful testing vi...