ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,983, issued on March 3, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Verification of authenticity of a data source" was invented by Frieder Jonas Jespers (Hamburg, Germany), Karsten Meisberger (Blomesche Wildnis, Germany), Nikita Veshchikov (Brussels) and Marc Vauclair (Overijse, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is described for verification of authenticity of a data source. The method includes generating a key and receiving a digital certificate. The key may be a private key of a key pair, and the digital certificate may be a qualified e-signature (QES) certificate that is tied to the data source and generated ...