ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,280, issued on June 2, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Digital signature batch verification" was invented by Lukasz Tomasz Jeda (Cracow, Poland), Grzegorz Piotr Szczepanik (Cracow, Poland), Andrzej Pietrzak (Cracow, Poland) and Piotr Kalandyk (Zielonki, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, according to one approach, includes: initializing a one-time digital signature scheme across two or more leaf nodes by: creating and sending instances of the one-time digital signature scheme to the respective leaf nodes. In response to receiving a request for data from a source,...