ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,472, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to MAKEINFINITE LABS INC. (San Clemente, Calif.).

"Methods for verifying database query results and devices thereof" was invented by Jay Thomas White (Lexington, Ky.) and Scott Edward Daly Dykstra (Fort Myers, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, non-transitory computer readable media, and verifier and/or prover devices or query verification apparatuses are disclosed that generate a first commitment from received data and send the received data to a prover device for insertion into a table of a database. A query result and an overall proof are received from the prover device in response to...