US Patent Issued to ARRIS Enterprises on July 1 for "Method and apparatus for two-step data signing" (California, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,620, issued on July 1, was assigned to ARRIS Enterprises LLC (Suwanee, Ga.).

"Method and apparatus for two-step data signing" was invented by Nicol C. P. So (Newtown, Pa.) and Alexander Medvinsky (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for signing data is presented. In one embodiment, the method comprises: generating a data signing key; transforming the data signing key into a first subkey and a second subkey; encrypting the first subkey according to a secret key of an ODSS; generating a signature verification public key; providing the signature verification public key, the encrypted first subkey, and the second ...