ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,304, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to AuthMe Co. Ltd. (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Data verification system" was invented by Nai-Ho Hsu (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Chi-Kuang Lee (Taipei, Taiwan) and Yu-Jen Chen (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data verification system includes a provider-end apparatus and a request-end apparatus. The provider-end apparatus receives a request of data from the request-end apparatus, retrieves a data cluster designated in the request of data, executes a first fingerprint process on an unrequested part of the data cluster to obtain an unrequested data fingerprint, and returns a requested part of the ...