ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,300, issued on July 29, was assigned to LG ELECTRONICS INC. (Seoul, South Korea) and UNIVERSITY OF SAO PAULO (Sao Paulo).
"Cryptographic methods and systems for managing digital certificates" was invented by Marcos A. Simplicio Jr. (Sao Paulo), Eduardo Lopes Cominetti (Sao Paulo), Harsh Kupwade Patil (Fremont, Calif.), Jefferson E. Ricardini Fernandez (Sao Paulo) and Marcos Vinicius M. Silva (Sao Paulo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Digital certificates are generated for devices by a Certificate Authority (CA), which communicates with devices via another entity-registration authority (RA)-so that the CA and RA cannot associate certif...