ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,731, issued on May 13, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).
"Methods and apparatus to renew digital certificates" was invented by Andrew J. Pekarske (Mundelein, Ill.), Jared Coy Roundy (Meridian, Idaho) and Christian S. Rothwell (North Kingstown, R.I.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example disclosed method for use in a device configured to communicate using digital certificates includes, in response to a request, receiving a digital certificate for use in secure communications between the device and another device; evaluating, using a logic circuit, the digital certificate to determine a validity of the d...