ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,831, issued on March 31, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Email protection using email signatures based on signing tokens" was invented by Rajiv Popat (Kolkata, India) and Manav Ghosh (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for email protection using email signatures based on signing tokens. One method comprises obtaining a signed email from an email sender. The signed email comprises a second hash value generated using a source version of the signed email embedded with a signing token of the email sender. A data record stores a first hash value, based on the source version, and...