ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,023, issued on June 17, was assigned to THALES DIS CPL USA INC. (Austin, Texas).

"In-band class of service signaling for cryptographic services on an HSM" was invented by Ranga Anumulapally (Pembroke Pines, Fla.), Wayne Reed (Kemptville, Canada) and Marc Boillot (Plantation, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a system, method and API that provides HSM customers with an ability to request different levels of service for any cryptographic workload. It provides the customer with an API that by way of a Class of Service (CoS) attribute signals a higher class/level of service at the application level, such as a faster respons...