US Patent Issued on Feb. 3 for "Methods and apparatus for providing information security by limiting access to data using zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPS)" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,757, issued on Feb. 3.

"Methods and apparatus for providing information security by limiting access to data using zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPS)" was invented by Mohammed Ilyas Ridhuan (London) and Miranda Vida Concepcion Wood (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-transitory, processor-readable medium storing instructions that executed by a processor, cause the processor to generate a new zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) for a transaction based on a correctness of a prior ZKP and a prior transaction. The processor is caused to generate a ZKP using data for a first transaction and embed that data into data of a second transaction, to ge...