ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,770, issued on April 14, was assigned to Ava Labs Inc. (New York).

"Salted bloom filters for peer-to-peer data dissemination" was invented by Stephen John Buttolph (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and technology for secure data dissemination in a network that reduces false positives. A method can include: initializing a bloom filter, generating a cryptographic seed value, generating salted data based on combinations of the cryptographic seed value and each data value in a set of local data values, injecting the salted data into the bloom filter to generate a salted bloom filter, s...