ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,257, issued on July 28, was assigned to DigiCert Inc. (Lehi, Utah).

"Incorporating digital certificates in smart wearable devices" was invented by Supratik Mondal (Pune, India) and Avesta Hojjati (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for establishing a trust framework with respect to smart wearable devices. In one implementation, a smart wearable device includes memory configured to store one or more certificates issued by a Certificate Authority (CA), wherein the one or more certificates enable a user of the smart wearable device to digitally verify his or her identity for performing a securi...