US Patent Issued to ASSA ABLOY on Dec. 2 for "Authenticating an electronic device based on threshold cryptography using partial secret keys" (Swedish, Austrian, Polish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,624, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to ASSA ABLOY AB (Stockholm).

"Authenticating an electronic device based on threshold cryptography using partial secret keys" was invented by Frans Lundberg (Saltsjobaden, Sweden), Martin Kaufmann (Graz, Austria) and Adam Augustyn (Krzeszowice, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is provided a method for performing an action by an electronic device (2), based on a first partial secret key (10a) and a corresponding second partial secret key (10b), wherein the first partial secret key (10a) and the second partial secret key (10b) form part of a threshold cryptography scheme (11) associated with a...