ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,368, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Validating certificate bundles with asymmetric keys" was invented by Burak Uzun (London), Mauruthi Geetha Mohan (Seattle), Tony Long (Edmonds, Wash.) and Owen Cliffe (Bath, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Operations of a certificate bundle validation service may include receiving a first certificate bundle that includes a first set of one or more digital certificates, and a digital signature, associated with the first certificate bundle; determining, using a public key of an asymmetric key pair associated with a second set of on...