US Patent Issued to Polymath on March 17 for "Method and system for private identity verification" (Armenian, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,896, issued on March 17, was assigned to Polymath Inc. (St. Michael, Barbados).

"Method and system for private identity verification" was invented by Arash Afshar (Calgary, Canada) and Aram Jivanyan (Yerevan, Armenia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and techniques for private identity verification involve obtaining a cryptographically secure commitment that is generated using a first user identifier and a private user identifier associated with the first user identifier; receiving, from an identity verification system, initial zero knowledge proof messages comprising the commitment; sending, to the identity verificat...