ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,693, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Auth9 Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).
"Method, computer program product and apparatus for creating, registering, and verifying digitally sealed assets" was invented by Hongjun Li (Newark, Calif.) and Ning Xu (Foster City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for generating a registered certified seal, sealing an asset, and verifying a sealed asset. In an example embodiment, a method is provided for receiving a request to generate a registered certified seal from an entity, accessing certifier entity data via a uniform resource locator of ...