US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Feb. 17 for "Public key embedded in content for verification of authorship" (Texas, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,808, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Public key embedded in content for verification of authorship" was invented by Karun P. Reddy (Austin, Texas), Charles D. Robison (Buford, Ga.) and Michael S. Gatson (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include retrieving a media identifier for an item of content to be published, publishing a public key associated with the item of content to a database in order to store the public key in an entry associated with the media identifier, encrypting the media identifier with a private key of a public-private key pair including the public k...