ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,697, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATION (Australian Capital Territory, Australia).

"Digital certificates" was invented by Yilin Sai (Australian Capital Territory, Australia) and Shiping Chen (Australian Capital Territory, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to a certificate computer system. A rules store stores, for a template identifier, template identifiers of dependency certificates, attribute paths, and functions to compute output certificate attributes. A certificate metadata store stores, for a certificate identifier, a validity state, cer...