US Patent Issued to Red Hat on May 26 for "Reducing network load and lead time for signing a package manager file" (Dutch, Irish, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,930, issued on May 26, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Reducing network load and lead time for signing a package manager file" was invented by Patrick Martijn Andreas Uiterwijk (Houten, Netherlands), Pierre-Yves Chibon (Puteaux, France) and Leigh Griffin (Waterford, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for signing a package manager file are disclosed. An example method includes receiving, at a signing client, a package manager file and a signing request to cryptographically sign the package manager file. The package manager file includes a header and a payload. The method also includes inspecting the header...