US Patent Issued to NEC Solution Innovators on June 17 for "Timestamp issuing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,416, issued on June 17, was assigned to NEC Solution Innovators Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Timestamp issuing method" was invented by Kunihiro Ishida (Tokyo) and Tatsunori Yamagami (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A local timestamp issuing apparatus according to the present invention includes: a timestamp issuing unit configured to, in response to a request for a timestamp for electronic data by a predetermined information processing apparatus installed in the same local environment, issue a timestamp token for the electronic data; a ledger timestamp requesting unit configured to, at a preset timing, connect to a specific timestamp issuing a...