ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,955, issued on March 25, was assigned to Visa International Service Association (San Francisco).

"System and computer program product for fair, secure n-party computation using at least one blockchain" was invented by Ranjit Kumar Kumaresan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Srinivasan Raghuraman (Cambridge, Mass.) and Rohit Sinha (Bokaro Steel, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are a system and computer program product for secure n-party computation. The system includes a computing device programmed or configured to communicate an input to a trusted execution environment (TEE), and receive a first encrypted output. The computing dev...