ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,777, issued on April 14, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Executing digital signature operations in a secure element platform runtime environment" was invented by Sebastian Jurgen Hans (Berlin) and Nicolas Michel Raphael Ponsini (Mougins, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more embodiments initialize a signature validation object in a secure element (SE) platform runtime environment and utilize the signature validation object to perform signature validation operations. A system accesses an authentication path that includes a set of hash values corresponding to a set of nodes of a tree s...