ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,847, issued on April 7, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).
"Decentralized attestations for software artifacts" was invented by Christian Martick (Brandenburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments describe techniques for validating the integrity and compliance of software artifacts through the use of attestations. An attestation manager is capable of retrieving an attestation file from storage, validating the software artifact and the attestation chain within the attestation, and optionally generate new attestations to add to the attestation chain when the software artifact and the attestation chain have been va...