ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,426, issued on April 1.
"Systems and methods for implementing indirect certificate pinning" was invented by Maximilian Alastair Buchan (Slough, Great Britain), Dzmitry Maskaliou (Slough, Great Britain), Michael Antipin (Slough, Great Britain) and Yann Golanski (Slough, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a system for implementing indirect certificate pinning. The system comprises a client device configured to execute client application having a public signing key pinned thereto, and a certificate information server communicably coupled with client device. Upon execution, the client application is configured to: ...