US Patent Issued to VMware on Jan. 27 for "Attestation and enforcement of cryptographic requirements across multiple hops" (American, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,802, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Attestation and enforcement of cryptographic requirements across multiple hops" was invented by Sean Huntley (Sydney), Daniel James Beveridge (Valrico, Fla.) and David Ott (Chandler, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides an approach for multi-endpoint cryptographic orchestration. Embodiments include establishing, by a first endpoint of a plurality of endpoints related to a multi-endpoint secure communication session, a metadata channel with one or more other endpoints of the plurality of endpoints. Embodiments include sending, by the first...