ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,817, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Secure consolidation system, information processing apparatus, secure consolidation method, and program" was invented by Koki Hamada (Tokyo), Koji Chida (Tokyo), Masanobu Kii (Tokyo), Atsunori Ichikawa (Tokyo) and Junichi Tomida (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A secure collation system performs secure-data-collation between first and second information processing apparatuses and includes the first and second information processing apparatuses. The second information-processing-apparatus creates, when receiving a first vector having a hash value of a key value of the fir...