US Patent Issued to DigiCert on Feb. 17 for "Secure and decentralized payment for digital media content via certificates with wallet information" (American, South African Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,098, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to DigiCert Inc. (Lehi, Utah).

"Secure and decentralized payment for digital media content via certificates with wallet information" was invented by Shivan Naidoo (Cape Town, South Africa) and Avesta Hojjati (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for secure and decentralized payment for digital media content via certificates with wallet information include, responsive to a request for a certificate from a user, obtaining information from the user including identify related information and a wallet address; validating the identify related information; validating the walle...