ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,757, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Nomura Research Institute Ltd. (Tokyo).

"User device for acquiring verifiable claims, system including said user device, and method for acquiring verifiable claims" was invented by Satoshi Yoshimura (Tokyo), Hideaki Furukawa (Tokyo) and Masashi Kawaguchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user device includes: a holding unit that holds confidential information; a generation unit that generates a generator; an arithmetic unit that calculates a commitment corresponding to the generator, on the basis of the generator and the confidential information; and an acquisition unit that transmits, to...