ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,191, issued on April 22.
"Selectivity in privacy and verification with applications" was invented by Yaron Gvili (Kefar Sava, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present description relates to systems and techniques for allowing a third party verifier to verify aspects of secured data, or successful communication thereof. For example, a message or other data may be associated with a shared manifest that describes aspects of some data but does not reveal or expose the data. As a result, the data may be kept private while selective privacy and verification with respect to the data is achieved by the inclusion of only selected aspe...