US Patent Issued to Adeia Guides on June 17 for "Privacy-preserving payments for peer-to-peer networks" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,516, issued on June 17, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Privacy-preserving payments for peer-to-peer networks" was invented by Ville Ollikainen (Vihti, Finland), Anni Karinsalo (Oulu, Finland), Pekka Koskela (Oulu, Finland) and Markku Kylanpaa (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A peer-to-peer content provision network is disclosed which implements a privacy-preserving payment mechanism for rewarding actors in the network (for example, a content supplier, a content distributor and storage-contributing peers). To reward some or all of those actors, a user device obtains, from a token service, anonymous digi...