US Patent Issued to SAP on Sept. 8 for "Systems and methods for software authentication without providing full software disclosure to a software notarizer" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,875, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Systems and methods for software authentication without providing full software disclosure to a software notarizer" was invented by Christian Martick (Wendisch Rietz, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments describe techniques for authenticating software artifacts in a secure manner that does not require the software notarizer accessing or storing any software artifact data. A proof algorithm may be utilized by the software vendor and the software notarizer in generating the disclosure-free notarization certificate. The same proof algorithm may then be ut...