ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,008, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Privacy engine(s) for masking confidential information during verification processes within distributed systems" was invented by Johnson Manuel-Devadoss (Elkridge, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of the present technology generally relate to systems and methods for providing a privacy engine. In an example, the privacy engine converts, on a prover-side, confidential information into a plurality of tuples for a verification process and embeds the plurality of tuples with an embedding element. The prover-side privacy engine ...