US Patent Issued to QPQ on Feb. 3 for "System and method for providing zero-knowledge range proofs" (Irish, Italian, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,672, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to QPQ Ltd. (Dublin).

"System and method for providing zero-knowledge range proofs" was invented by Zaira Pindado Tost (Barcelona, Spain), Emanuele Ragnoli (Dublin) and Roberto Ripamonti (Guanzate, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method for providing zero-knowledge range proofs for verifiable privacy-preserving queries are provided. The method comprises: defining a bilinear group; receiving, by a prover, a query from a verifier; determining a range proof for a result of the query implementing a variation of a bulletproof (BP) range proof system; generating a first inner product f...