US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Oct. 7 for "Storing data in a tree using bilinear accumulation" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,718, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Storing data in a tree using bilinear accumulation" was invented by Kaoutar El Khiyaoui (Zurich), Angelo De Caro (Zurich, Switzerland) and Elli Androulaki (Zurich, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to storing a set of n data entries. The method includes creating a tree of ary l such that n leaf nodes of the tree comprise a set of hash values of the set of data entries respectively. For each parent node of the tree, a bilinear accumulator of hash values of l children of the parent node may be computed. A...