ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,412, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Codenotary Inc. (Bellaire, Texas).

"System and method to shorten cryptographic proofs" was invented by Jeronimo Irazabal (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Moshe Bar (Houston) and Dennis Zimmer (Kuessnacht am Rigi, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are computer-implemented methods of, and computer systems for, constructing dual cryptographic proofs for transactions where transaction data is stored in a cryptographically-linked data file and in an incremental hash tree, where a dual cryptographic proof includes linear cryptographic proof data from the cryptographically-linked t...