ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,394, issued on June 17, was assigned to Technische Universitaet Darmstadt (Darmstadt, Germany).
"Anonymous distributed contact tracing and verification system" was invented by Markus Miettinen (Ober-Ramstadt, Germany), Duc Thien Nguyen (Darmstadt, Germany) and Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi (Seeheim-Jugenheim, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated contact tracing system for anonymously identifying contacts between users includes at least a tracing server; and more than one mobile device or wearable of a user comprising means for short-range proximity communication and means for carrying out a computer program for generating Encount...