ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,913, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Polylithic syntax zero knowledge joint proof method, apparatus and system" was invented by Sheng Sun (Kanata, Canada) and Wen Tong (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus and system for implementing zero-knowledge proofs is provided. Partitioned garbled circuits are used to achieve a joint zero-knowledge proof system with full syntax verification. A polylithic syntax is used for handling complex semantics involving more than one statement to be proved and verified. Multiple verifiers can participate in a coordinated manner to ...