US Patent Issued to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE on June 17 for "Information processing apparatus, program execution system, information processing method and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,409, issued on June 17, was assigned to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, program execution system, information processing method and program" was invented by Tetsuya Okuda (Tokyo) and Koji Chida (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes a secure area configured to execute a program in secret, and a security chip. The secure area conceals information related to the program, and requests the security chip to provide a blind signature with respect to the concealed information obtained by the concealing. The security chip calculates the blind signatu...