US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Oct. 27 for "Cryptographic proof of identity with independent verification and provable recovery" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,917, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Cryptographic proof of identity with independent verification and provable recovery" was invented by Oliver James Bull (Bristol, Great Britain) and Louis Gwyn Samuel (Gloucestershire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a device identifies, for an existing digital identifier, a public key, a sequence number, and a signature. The device forms a new digital identifier that includes the public key, the sequence number, and the signature identified by the device for the existing digital identifier. The device signs the new digit...