US Patent Issued to Oracle International on April 21 for "Prevention of information leakage through signature" (American, British, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,836, issued on April 21, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Canada).

"Prevention of information leakage through signature" was invented by Christian Rudolf Hoermann (Raleigh, N.C.), Dharma Ganesan (Columbia, Md.), Thomas William Keetch (Blackburn with Darwen, Great Britain) and David Meibusch (Brisbane City, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for preventing leakage of sensitive information through a signature are disclosed. Data is received, and the data is transmitted to a signature and encryption (SE) service, along with an encryption key. Signed and encrypted data is received from the SE ...