US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on June 24 for "Zero-knowledge confidential computing" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,895, issued on June 24, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Zero-knowledge confidential computing" was invented by Mark Eugene Russinovich (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed technology is generally directed to zero knowledge confidential computing. In one example of the technology, via a prover, in a trusted execution environment, a private input and a public input are provided to a statement. The prover and the statement each include processor-executable code. Via the prover, in the trusted execution environment, execution of the statement is caused in the trusted executio...