ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,946, issued on July 15, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).
"Recommendation service using blind signatures" was invented by Shashank Mohan Jain (Bangalore, India), Suchin Chouta (Udupi, India) and Srinivasa Reddy Challa (Guntur, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An onboarding request is received from a user to utilize a recommendation service. The onboarding request contains personal data (including an onboarding user identifier and a serial number requesting a stated number of credits), encrypted with a commuting function C, along with clear text account details. A blind trust is established with the user, and the recomme...