US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on April 14 for "Verifiable attribute maps" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,497, issued on April 14, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Verifiable attribute maps" was invented by Ramarathnam Venkatesan (Redmond, Wash.), Srinath T. V. Setty (Redmond, Wash.), Nishanth Chandran (Bangalore, India) and Panagiotis Antonopoulos (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Verifiable attribute maps that maintain references to identities and attribute information associated with the identities are disclosed. A verifiable attribute map is maintained by a ledger database that provides tamper-resistant/evident capabilities for tables (comprising the map) thereof. For instance, when ...