US Patent Issued to Salesforce on Sept. 16 for "Protecting application private keys with remote and local security controllers" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,405, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Protecting application private keys with remote and local security controllers" was invented by Prasad Peddada (Alameda, Calif.) and Taher Elgamal (Atherton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A remote security controller (RSC) generates a private key for a client application on a different host computing device and splits the private key into a first fragment and a second fragment. The first fragment, but not the second fragment, is encrypted using a symmetric key. The split private key is returned to the different host computing device. A local security ...