US Patent Issued to Lagrange Labs on July 22 for "Systems and methods for cryptography" (American, Dutch, French, Croatian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,596, issued on July 22, was assigned to Lagrange Labs Inc. (New York).

"Systems and methods for cryptography" was invented by Charalampos Papamanthou (Fairfield, Conn.), Shravan Srinivasan (Gaithersburg, Md.), Nicolas Gailly (Paris), Ismael Hishon-Rezaizadeh (New York), Andrus Salumets (Amsterdam) and Stjepan Golemac (Spilt, Croatia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cryptographic method of performing a maintainable Merkle-based vector commitment is provided. The method comprises: a) computing a succinct batch proof of a subset of k leaves in a Merkle tree of n leaves using a recursive succinct non-interactive arguments of knowledge (S...