ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,540, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Schneider Electric USA Inc. (Boston).

"Centralized certificate management for certificate pinning" was invented by Daniel Andre Paillet (Andover, Mass.) and Michael William Pyle (Hermitage, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for storing a proxy site certificate and up-to-date cloud site certificates for cloud site(s), receiving a request from a client application executing on a client device to access one or more of the cloud site(s), the client device being a computing device, authenticating with the client application using the proxy site certificate and based on the pr...