ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,769, issued on March 17, was assigned to Visa International Service Association (San Francisco).

"Round optimal oblivious transfers from isogenies" was invented by Pratyay Mukherjee (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Pratik Sarkar (San Francisco), Sikhar Patranabis (San Francisco), Srinivasan Raghuraman (Cambridge, Mass.), Daniel Masny (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Saikrishna Badrinarayanan (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Conducting secure transfers between computing devices can pose a challenge. Therefore, an oblivious transfer can be used to conduct a secure transfer. The oblivious transfer (OT) is an interactive protocol between two ...