US Patent Issued to VeriSign on Oct. 6 for "Methods and systems for generating condensed signatures for an evolving data series and applications thereof" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,575, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to VeriSign Inc. (Reston, Va.).

"Methods and systems for generating condensed signatures for an evolving data series and applications thereof" was invented by Burton S. Kaliski Jr. (McLean, Va.), Andrew Fregly (Reston, Va.), Joseph Harvey (Clifton, Va.) and Swapneel Sheth (Fairfax, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for forming a data structure is provided. The method includes generating, by a signer, a hash-based data authentication structure and selecting a first strategy. The first strategy includes a process for updating a first data structure. The method further in...