ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,769, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to DFINITY STIFTUNG (Zurich, Switzerland).

"Data authentication in distributed networks" was invented by Joachim Breitner (Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany), Jan Camenisch (Thalwil, Switzerland), Andrea Cerulli (Zurich, Switzerland), David Derler (Horgen, Switzerland), Roman Kashitsyn (Pfaffikon, Switzerland), Gregory Neven (Oberrieden, Switzerland) and Bogdan Warinschi (Wollerau, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the invention relate to a computer-implemented method for authenticating data in a distributed network. The distributed network comprises at least one application ...