ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,817, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to STEALTH SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Los Angeles).

"Efficient publicly-verifiable zero-knowledge proof system with reduced proof size" was invented by Samuel Dittmer (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generating a proof of a statement related to private data without revealing the data to verifier parties. The method involves secure storage of private data and a statement at a prover party's computing device. The statement's validity is encoded as an arithmetic circuit's satisfiability. The method includes computing two vectors, A and B, with A containing random elements and B...