US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on July 22 for "Secure smart card signing digital documents and validation" (Massachusetts, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,593, issued on July 22, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Secure smart card signing digital documents and validation" was invented by Kevin Osborn (Newton Highlands, Mass.) and Srinivasa Chigurupati (Long Grove, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for signing a document by generating a hash value using a smart card. The smart card can receive from a computing device a first hash value generated for the document based on a first hash function, determine a private key based on a private key information stored on the smart card, sign the...