MUMBAI, India, April 17 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202611021019 A) filed by Ajay Kumar Garg Engineering College, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, on Feb. 23, for 'decentralized system and method for privacy-preserving and verifiable informal labour identity and work credential management.'
Inventor(s) include Shivam Sharma; Sakshi Singh; Manish Pal; Sumit Paswan; and Kamna Singh.
The application for the patent was published on April 17, under issue no. 16/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention discloses a decentralized system and method for privacy-preserving and verifiable informal labour identity and work credential management. The system integrates a user computing device having a hardware-based cryptographic secure module, a verification oracle infrastructure, and a distributed ledger network executing smart contracts. Decentralized identifiers are generated and securely stored using hardware-enforced cryptographic isolation and secret sharing. Zero-knowledge proofs are computed to enable selective disclosure of labour credentials without revealing personal data. Merkle-root batching is employed to aggregate multiple credentials into a single cryptographic commitment, thereby reducing bandwidth consumption and transaction cost. The verification oracle infrastructure validates cryptographic proofs and submits batched commitments to the distributed ledger network for immutable recording and automated trust validation. The invention provides a secure, low-latency, and privacy-preserving technical solution for decentralized labour recognition, particularly suited for resource-constrained and low-connectivity environments."
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