US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Nov. 25 for "Sustainable tokens for supply chain with privacy preserving protocol" (Argentinean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,935, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Sustainable tokens for supply chain with privacy preserving protocol" was invented by Jeronimo Irazabal (Roque Perez, Argentina) and Mariela Claudia Lanza (Tandil, Argentina).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented system and method provide a privacy preserving token generation protocol. The method comprises initiating an order request, where the order request includes order public information and order private information. The method further comprises generating an address in a blockchain network that includes encrypting the a...