US Patent Issued to Koninklijke Philips on July 14 for "Protocol for trustworthy, privacy preserving genomic database discovery" (Belgian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,790, issued on July 14, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Protocol for trustworthy, privacy preserving genomic database discovery" was invented by Adriaan Joris H Larmuseau (Zwevegem, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for validating by a requestor that a responder has genomic data meeting specified requirements, including: digitally publishing the specified requirements; performing a non-interactive zero-knowledge (NIZK) proof with the responder; verifying that the responder has genomic data meeting the specified requirements based upon the results of the NIZK proof; and rece...