ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,042, issued on June 17.

"System, method, and computer device for data integrity validation" was invented by Mark Church (Waterloo, Canada) and Zachary Packull (Cambridge, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, method, and device for data integrity validation are provided. The system includes a database for storing user data, a black box device for locally answering queries received from an end user device without revealing the stored user data, and end user device. The black box device includes memory for storing the user data, data filters, filtered data, the queries received from the end user device, query results, and exc...