US Patent Issued to Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University on June 23 for "Computer-implemented method for protecting sensitive data in a transaction based on a smart contract deployed in a blockchain" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,581, issued on June 23, was assigned to Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

"Computer-implemented method for protecting sensitive data in a transaction based on a smart contract deployed in a blockchain" was invented by Fahd Abdulsalam Alhaidari (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Malak Saleh Aljabri (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Lama Abdullah Alaqeel (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Razan Mohammed Khormy (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Salma Abdulrahman Bader (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Shahad Mohammed Tayeb (Dammam, Saudi Arabia) and Zahra Abdultawab Al Kubaish (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-based bidding syste...