US Patent Issued to United States Postal Service on July 29 for "Methods and systems for data authentication services" (Virginia, District Of Columbia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,278, issued on July 29, was assigned to United States Postal Service (Washington).

"Methods and systems for data authentication services" was invented by Clayton C. Bonnell (Fairfax, Va.) and Kelley A. Sullivan (Washington).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for electronic document authentication are disclosed. In one aspect, a method of generating an electronic postmark includes receiving, via a server, a request message from an electronic network, the request message comprising request data including payload data and meta data, generating a timestamp in response to receiving the message, hashing the payload data to g...