ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,774, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Anametric Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Systems and methods for generating and implementing a reversible hash circuit" was invented by Mitchell A. Thornton (Dallas), Elena Rochelle Henderson (Norman, Okla.), Jessie Monique Henderson (Norman, Okla.) and William V. Oxford (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for generating reversible hash circuits from irreversible hash functions are disclosed, along with reversible hash circuits generated using such systems and methods. Generally, embodiments may obtain a hash function and generate a reversible hash circuit by mapping that ...