US Patent Issued to Visa International Service Association on June 23 for "Oblivious transfer from key encapsulation mechanisms" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,768, issued on June 23, was assigned to Visa International Service Association (San Francisco).

"Oblivious transfer from key encapsulation mechanisms" was invented by Gaven Watson (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Daniel Masny (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments can perform efficient OT (oblivious transfer) protocols to efficiently establish OT correlations that could be used for an MPC protocol. The present embodiments relate to a non-interactive OT (NIOT) protocol using a key encapsulation mechanism (KEM). Two OT protocols are non-interactive OTs, in which a sender generates private, public key pair (pk, sk) that is...