ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,269, issued on June 2, was assigned to SHANDONG UNIVERSITY (Qingdao, China).

"Post-quantum secure VOPRF protocol for post-quantum security, and method and system for anonymous token authentication" was invented by Zengpeng Li (Qingdao, China) and Mei Wang (Qingdao, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a VOPRF protocol for post-quantum security, and a method and system for anonymous token authentication. The VOPRF protocol includes: a public parameter setting phase, an encoding and request phase, a re-encoding and response phase, and a decoding phase. The method for anonymous token authentication includes...