ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,378, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Siemens AG (Monchen, Germany).
"Monitoring system for monitoring hash-based digital signatures" was invented by Fabrizio De Santis (Munich) and Antonio Vaira (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monitoring system including a requesting device, a monitoring apparatus and a signing device, wherein the monitoring apparatus is configured to receive a signature request data structure, store the data, receive a hash-based digital signature generated for the data by a stateful hash-based cryptographic function of the signing device, extract a one-time signature from the received hash-based digital...