ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,298, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to HANGZHOU QULIAN TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Zhejiang, China).

"Pipeline-friendly signature and verification method, device, and storage medium" was invented by Weiwei Qiu (Zhejiang, China), Wei Li (Zhejiang, China), Kejie Zhang (Zhejiang, China), Fanglei Huang (Zhejiang, China) and Peiyang Qiao (Zhejiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application provides a pipeline-friendly signature and verification method, a device and a storage medium. The method includes the following steps: generating, by the Witness node, a public-private key pair including a private key and a public key, thr...