ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,307, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Cryptographic authentication signatures for verification of streaming data" was invented by Timothy Glenn Suter (Melbourne, Australia), Harvey Edward Phillips (London) and Bryce Edward Case (Colorado Springs, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are described for signing and verifying a data stream with an encryption signature. An example method includes determining, for a data block group, an initialization vector. The example method also includes generating, based at least in part on the data block group, encrypted hash data. The exa...