US Patent Issued to PwC Product Sales on Feb. 10 for "Method and apparatus for decentralized privacy preserving audit based on zero knowledge proof protocol" (American, South African Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,370, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to PwC Product Sales LLC (New York).

"Method and apparatus for decentralized privacy preserving audit based on zero knowledge proof protocol" was invented by Chung-Sheng Li (Scarsdale, N.Y.), Winnie Cheng (West New York, N.J.), Mark John Flavell (Madison, N.J.), Nicholas John Hamer (Tampa, Fla.), Rhodri Davies (Tampa, Fla.), Elizabeth Cornelia Botha (Western Cape, South Africa), Henry Hwangbo (Northbrook, Ill.) and Scott Likens (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are systems and methods for decentralized privacy preserving audits comprising receiving by a first local syst...