ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,109, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to IUCF-HYU (INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION HANYANG UNIVERSITY) (Seoul, South Korea) and KOOKMIN UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY ACADEMY COOPERATION FOUNDATION (Seoul, South Korea).
"Membership proof device and method for ensuring privacy" was invented by Hyun Ok Oh (Seoul, South Korea), Se Min Han (Seoul, South Korea) and Ji Hye Kim (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a membership proof device and method for ensuring privacy. The disclosed membership proof method includes for ensuring privacy includes performing a first calculation for a user's membership proof using ...