US Patent Issued to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Homeland Security on Aug. 12 for "Zero knowledge cryptographic hash identity validation" (Montana Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,939, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Homeland Security (Washington).

"Zero knowledge cryptographic hash identity validation" was invented by William Hastings (Billings, Mont.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present invention relate to machines, systems, and methods for using a zero knowledge hash function to verify validity of an ID. Certain configurations may provide machines, systems, and method for proving the ID is genuine, the information on the ID is correct, and the user presenting the ID is the same as the user in the ID. Some ...