ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,889, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing system, data providing apparatus, data processing apparatus, data receiving apparatus, method, and computer readable medium" was invented by Hikaru Tsuchida (Tokyo), Haruna Fukuda (Tokyo), Kengo Mori (Tokyo) and Toshiyuki Isshiki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data providing apparatus acquires a plurality of range proof data, generates a digital signature for each of the range proof data, and transmits a data set, a sanitizable signature, the range proof data, and the digital signature to a data processing apparatus. The data processing appa...