US Patent Issued to NTT Research, The Regents Of The University Of California on Feb. 3 for "Efficient methods for trusted remote program execution" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,673, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to NTT Research Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and The Regents Of The University Of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Efficient methods for trusted remote program execution" was invented by Riddhi Ghosal (Los Angeles), Amit Sahai (Los Angeles) and Brent Waters (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments include a fully non-interactive publicly-verifiable delegation scheme for committed programs, specifically, a setting where Alice is a trusted author who delegates to an untrusted worker the task of hosting a program P, represented as a Boolean circuit. Alice also commits to a succinct value bas...