US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on July 29 for "Cryptographic assertions for certificate issuance" (Washington, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,302, issued on July 29, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Cryptographic assertions for certificate issuance" was invented by Michael S Slaughter (Stone Mountain, Ga.), Trevoli Ponds-White (Seattle), James Darrin Flanagan (Coupeville, Wash.) and Georgy Sebastian (Everett, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Components of a public certificate authority (CA) generate respective cryptographic assertions during performance of respective tasks of a certificate issuance workflow and a workflow approval component approves/rejects certificate issuance, based upon verification of the cryptographic assertions. For example, a...