US Patent Issued to nChain Licensing on July 14 for "Blocking sensitive data" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,791, issued on July 14, was assigned to nChain Licensing AG (Zug, Switzerland).

"Blocking sensitive data" was invented by Mehmet Sabir Kiraz (Leicester, Great Britain), Wai Liu (San Francisco) and Owen Vaughan (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for blocking sensitive data in a message, the method performed on a computing device and comprising: creating a copy of said message; generating at least one zero knowledge proof, the generating of each of said at least one zero knowledge proof comprising: obtaining a mask bit string which identifies locations of at least one sensitive bit in bits of said copy; computing a public ...