US Patent Issued to Wells Fargo Bank on Oct. 7 for "Public key infrastructure using quantum computers (PKIQC)" (California, Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,707, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Public key infrastructure using quantum computers (PKIQC)" was invented by Jeffrey J. Stapleton (O'Fallon, Mo.) and Richard Orlando Toohey (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for generating a first signature on a first certificate of the plurality of certificates using a first digital signature generation algorithm based on a first private key. The first signature is validated by a relying party device using a first public key in certificate chain va...