US Patent Issued to VMWare on March 18 for "Decentralized identity access management using byzantine fault tolerant state machine replication" (American, Bulgarian, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,007, issued on March 18, was assigned to VMWare LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Decentralized identity access management using byzantine fault tolerant state machine replication" was invented by Ram Krishnan (Cupertino, Calif.), Kostas Teofanidis (Sofia, Bulgaria), Vijaya Prakash Masilamani (Bangalore, India) and Michael William Achenbach (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decentralized identity access management (IAM) architecture that executes IAM service code on the distributed nodes (i.e., replicas) of a Byzantine fault tolerant (BFT) state machine replication (SMR) system is provided. For example, the IAM service cod...