ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,487, issued on May 12, was assigned to Auradine Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"End-to-end hardware acceleration for ZKP from witness generation to proof generation" was invented by Patrick Xu (Saratoga, Calif.), Minglei Wang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Sidong Li (Saratoga, Calif.), De Vu (Livermore, Calif.), Saptadeep Pal (Cupertino, Calif.) and Lei Chang (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A local buffer is integrated with a witness generator and a proof generator on a cryptographic processor and is separate from host memory accessed by a host processor operating with the cryptographic processor in a proving computing system. The...