ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,694, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON (New York).

"System and method for validating an instruction with multiple digital signatures" was invented by James Pecoraro (New York), Scott Ryan James (New York), Jakub Guzikowski (Wroclaw, Poland) and Cezary Siewierski (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for validating an instruction with multiple digital signatures may receive an instruction to initiate a transaction; generate first and second digital certificates; validate a set of one or more policy limits; sign the instruction using the first digital certificate, based on the validatin...