ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,115, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).
"Data integrity validation via degenerate keys" was invented by Michael John Line (University Park, Md.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for developing a novel public/private key pair having unique properties are disclosed, whereby standard data security operations in existing data security infrastructures return a data integrity validation result-but do not provide the intended data security of such infrastructures. These novel keys are referred to as degenerate keys and may be used to replace the public and private keys in existing public/pri...