ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,240, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Certificate revocation list management services" was invented by Jodi Robertson (Seattle), Tony Long (Edmonds, Wash.), Mauruthi Geetha Mohan (Seattle) and Mina Anes (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Operations may include receiving, from a first network entity, a first request for a first certificate revocation list (CRL) that identifies a first CRL distribution point (CDP) corresponding to the first CRL; mapping the first CDP to a first CRL identifier of a set of available CRL identifiers; locating, in a CRL repository, a fir...