ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,007, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method of managing authentication information of certificate independently of certificate authority" was invented by Daegeun Yoon (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of managing authentication information of a certificate independently of a certificate authority (CA) is provided. The method includes issuing a certificate, into which identifier information instead of a public key is inserted, to an origin server by using the CA and reading an identifier document from an external storage by us...