ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,291, issued on April 22, was assigned to SITA Information Networking Computing UK Ltd. (Great Britain).
"Apparatus and method for verifying electronic records" was invented by Rowan Shedden (Sydney), Adrien Sanglier (Monteral, Canada) and Barry John McLaughlin (Letterkenny, Ireland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus is provided for verifying a plurality of cryptographically signed user electronic records using a corresponding cryptographic proof. Cryptographic keys for verifying the plurality of user electronic records, and corresponding user electronic record schemas are cached in a local data store. The apparatus obtains up...