ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,080, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Signature graph method for enabling human authentication of high-entropy data" was invented by Hui Luo (Marlboro, N.J.) and Hans Van Antwerpen (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A signature graph method is proposed to authenticate shared high-entropy data using a graph that can be easily identified by human eyes (or by computer image recognition algorithms). An example method for authenticating a shared data element comprises receiving a data element to be shared; transforming the data element to be shared into signature graph ...