ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,631, issued on May 27, was assigned to DigiCert Inc. (Lehi, Utah).

"Authentication of security seals using dynamic authentication information" was invented by Avesta Hojjati (Austin, Texas) and Jason Allen Sabin (Lehi, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Features are disclosed for a security seal indicating a security of an application. A computing device can receive a request to implement a security seal for an application. The computing device can identify dynamic authentication information and inject the dynamic authentication information into a security seal based on validating a relationship between the application and an entity...