ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,672, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Key derivation methods for hash-based signature schemes" was invented by Christine van Vredendaal (Veldhoven, Netherlands), Melissa Azouaoui (Norderstedt, Germany), Marcel Medwed (Graz, Austria) and Tobias Schneider (Graz, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing system comprising instructions embodied in a non-transitory computer readable medium, the instructions for generating keys in a hash based signature system in a processor, the instructions, including: generating, by a random number generator, a seed; repeatedly hashing the seed with a...