US Patent Issued to nChain Licensing on July 29 for "Methods and devices for automated digital certificate verification" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,298, issued on July 29, was assigned to nChain Licensing AG (Zug, Switzerland).

"Methods and devices for automated digital certificate verification" was invented by Michaella Pettit (London), Wei Zhang (London), Owen Vaughan (London) and Craig Steven Wright (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A public key may be recorded on the blockchain by a certificate authority in such a manner that any third party may quickly and easily verify that the public key is certified by the certificate authority and that the certification has not been revoked. The certificate authority may be able to revoke the certification nearly instantaneously, a...