ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,784, issued on April 14, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Authorization of states in a stateful signature scheme" was invented by Thalia May Laing (Bristol, Great Britain), Maugan Villatel (Bristol, Great Britain), Pierre Louis Robert Belgarric (Bristol, Great Britain), Adrian John Baldwin (Bristol, Great Britain), Adrian Laurence Shaw (Bristol, Great Britain) and Remy Husson (Bristol, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example, a computing device is described. The computing device comprises an interface to receive a request from a signer for a state. The state is to be used as an ...