ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,748, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to IDEMIA PUBLIC SECURITY FRANCE (Courbevoie, France).
"Digital document seal" was invented by Teresa Wu (Pegram, Tenn.), Rein-Lien Hsu (Edison, N.J.) and Brian Martin (Bedford, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for sealing a document using a visible graphical digital seal are described, as well as systems and methods for authenticating a sealed document by identifying and decoding the digital seal."
The patent was filed on May 30, 2023, under Application No. 18/325,723.
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