US Patent Issued to Black Duck Software on May 12 for "Protecting intellectual property using digital signatures" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,645, issued on May 12, was assigned to Black Duck Software Inc. (Burlington, Mass.).

"Protecting intellectual property using digital signatures" was invented by Damon A. Weinstein (Arlington, Mass.), Kathleen E. Simmons (Pepperell, Mass.), Mayur Kadu (Burlington, Mass.), Jay Ricco (Arllington, Mass.), Jagat Prakashchandra Parekh (Andover, Mass.), Sai keerthy Kakarla (Burlington, Mass.) and Matthew Fenwick (Woburn, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of protecting intellectual property using digital signatures include generating reference digital signatures of first content, generating a digital signature of second content, co...