ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,283, issued on May 20, was assigned to Quantum Information Security LLC (Everett, Wash.).

"Polymorphic digital security and methods of use thereof" was invented by Timothy Fletcher (Everett, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are various methods of generating and using a digital signature, such as a polymorphic digital signature. One or more methods of creating a digital signature permit strings of characters, which may be simple or complex, to uniquely identify large numbers of people, things, and actions. Different people, things, and actions can use the same set of characters to identify themselves and yet still...