ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,389, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device and information processing method" was invented by Atsushi Uchida (Tokyo) and Shinya Maruyama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing device includes a first recording unit, a verification unit, and a second recording unit. In response to a request from an information management device that manages data, the first recording unit records information regarding a browsing right of data in a blockchain. The verification unit verifies a zero-knowledge proof for proving that a user is a valid user who has been given the ...