US Patent Issued to VeriSign on June 3 for "Attribute inheritance of related objects for a digital object architecture" (Virginia, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,759, issued on June 3, was assigned to VeriSign Inc. (Reston, Va.).

"Attribute inheritance of related objects for a digital object architecture" was invented by Andrew Fregly (Reston, Va.), Swapneel Sheth (Fairfax, Va.) and Najmehalsadat Miramirkhani (Stony Brook, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For digital objects registered via the DOA infrastructure, attribute inheritance is enabled between related objects using naming conventions for the handle IDs or data models for handle data. Each child object of a parent object may automatically inherit at least one predetermined attribute of the parent object. When a retriever machine (l...