US Patent Issued to Adeia Guides on Nov. 3 for "Decentralized peer-to-peer privacy-preserving billing" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,047, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Decentralized peer-to-peer privacy-preserving billing" was invented by Markku Kylanpaa (Helsinki), Ville Ollikainen (Vihti, Finland), Pekka Koskela (Oulu, Finland) and Anni Karinsalo (Oulu, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A privacy-preserving process for communicating over a decentralized peer-to-peer network is described in which a user device receives a digitally signed temporary user ID from an identification service, and initiates a transaction with an online content provider using the digitally signed temporary user ID and cryptographically encry...