US Patent Issued to Gen Digital on May 5 for "Systems and methods for verifying digital documents" (British, Irish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,787, issued on May 5, was assigned to Gen Digital Inc. (Tempe, Ariz.).

"Systems and methods for verifying digital documents" was invented by David Luz Silva (Dublin), Kevin Roundy (El Segundo, Calif.) and Paul Dunphy (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are provided by which an electronic address associated with a user is monitored. Based on the monitoring, an electronic message is detected including a digital document. A cryptographic function is applied to the digital document to generate a hash which is rendered accessible at a network location. An identification of the network location of the...