ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,016, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to DigiCert Inc. (Lehi, Utah).
"Issuing digitally signed QR codes for vehicles" was invented by Samir Kumar Rakshit (Bengaluru, India) and Avesta Hojjati (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for applying a digitally signed QR code to a vehicle are provided. In one implementation, a method includes the step of receiving, from a requesting entity, a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) and object-related information associated with an object. The method further includes the step of issuing a digital certificate to authenticate the object and/or the requesting entity. Also, th...