ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,350, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).
"Signature verifications using Merkle signature schemes" was invented by Maugan Cedric Villatel (Bristol, Great Britain), Thalia May Laing (Bristol, Great Britain) and Ilja Siros (Grenoble, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples relate to machine readable storage storing instructions arranged, when processed, to realise methods of verifying as valid a received signature, associated with a respective received message, generated using a Merkle Signature Scheme comprising a Merkle Tree, the Merkel Tree comprising a root node, a number of ...