US Patent Issued to Visa International Service Association on Aug. 25 for "Statistically private oblivious transfer from CDH" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,838, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Visa International Service Association (San Francisco).

"Statistically private oblivious transfer from CDH" was invented by Saikrishna Badrinarayanan (Fremont, Calif.), Sikhar Patranabis (San Francisco) and Pratik Sarkar (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for performing oblivious transfer are disclosed. These methods include a method for performing random single bit oblivious transfer (a "first method"), a method for performing random string oblivious transfer (a "second method"), and a method for performing non-random string oblivious transfer (a "third method"). In the firs...