ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,773, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to DigiCert Inc. (Lehi, Utah).
"Utilizing hardware tokens in conjunction with HSM for code signing" was invented by Avesta Hojjati (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Utilizing hardware tokens in conjunction with a Hardware Security Module (HSM) for code signing includes, subsequent to storing a private key of a developer, receiving a request to sign a digest of software from the developer; receiving an approval from the developer to enable use of the private key; and responsive to the approval, encrypting and signing the digest utilizing the private key to attest the software is from th...