ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,381, issued on June 10, was assigned to Bitdefender IPR Management Ltd. (Nicosia, Cyprus).
"Privacy-preserving domain name services (DNS)" was invented by Bogdan C. Cebere (Buchare, Romania), Elena Burceanu (Buchare, Romania), Madalina Bolboceanu (Focsani, Romania), Emanuela Haller (Buchare, Romania), Georgiana M. Rosca (Buchare, Romania) and Radu Titiu (Buchare, Romania).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described systems and methods allow carrying out privacy-preserving DNS exchanges. In some embodiments, a client machine engages in a private information retrieval (PIR) exchange with a nameserver. In response to receiving an encrypted ...