US Patent Issued to HCL Technologies on Oct. 20 for "Privacy preserving geofencing system and method thereof" (Indian, Null Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,517, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to HCL Technologies Ltd. (New Delhi).

"Privacy preserving geofencing system and method thereof" was invented by Duc Cuong Nguyen (Hanoi, Viet Nam), Simy Chacko (Chennai, India) and Dhanyamraju S U M Prasad (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A privacy preserving geofencing system and method are disclosed. The method includes receiving a current location data of a vehicle. The current location data is homomorphically encrypted through a homomorphic encryption technique. The method further includes randomly generating at least two secure values corresponding to the current location data...