ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,394, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Privacy-preserving mobility as a service supported by blockchain" was invented by Hideji Wakabayashi (Basingstoke, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a communication network node for providing data to a distributed ledger, wherein the node has circuitry configured to: provide a user data management part for separating sensitive user data and non-sensitive user data, and provide the non-sensitive user data to the distributed ledger."

The patent was filed on Dec. 18, 2023, under Application No. 18/543,050.

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