ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,535, issued on April 22, was assigned to DigiCert Inc. (Lehi, Utah).
"Blockchain-based certificate management" was invented by Shivan Naidoo (Cape Town, South Africa) and Avesta Hojjati (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for a blockchain-based OCSP responder using smart contracts and custom URI scheme for certificate revocation management. Various embodiments include, responsive to a requirement to determine status of a digital certificate, obtaining blockchain information from the digital certificate; interacting with a specified blockchain network based on the blockchain information; and determining a ...