ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,409, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).
"Self-signed certificate" was invented by Yoav Ben-Yehezkel (Netanya, Israel) and Yaron Alpert (Hod Hasharon, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-transitory machine-readable medium includes machine-readable instructions for a key value generator and a certificate generator. The key value generator is executable by a processor core to concatenate a public key of a certificate issuer with a second value to form a key combination and generate a digest of the key combination to provide a key value. The certificate generator is executable by the processor cor...