US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on March 18 for "Dynamic response signing capability in a distributed system" (Virginia, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,018, issued on March 18, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Dynamic response signing capability in a distributed system" was invented by Gregory Branchek Roth (Seattle) and Eric Jason Brandwine (Haymarket, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system that provides responses to requests obtains a key that is used to digitally sign the request. The key is derived from information that is shared with a requestor to which the response is sent. The requestor derives, using the shared information, derives a key usable to verify the digital signature of the response, thereby enabling the requestor to operate in accordance ...