US Patent Issued to NCHAIN LICENSING on July 22 for "Computer-implemented system and method for enabling zero-knowledge proof" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,490, issued on July 22, was assigned to NCHAIN LICENSING AG (Zug, Switzerland).

"Computer-implemented system and method for enabling zero-knowledge proof" was invented by Thomas Trevethan (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to efficient zero knowledge verification of composite statements that involve both arithmetic circuit satisfiability and dependent statements about the validity of public keys (key-statement proofs) simultaneously. A method is disclosed for a prover proving to a verifier that a statement is true, while keeping a witness (w) to the statement a secret, and a verifier using a reciprocal metho...