ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,384, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to MPC HOLDING INC. (Concord, N.H.).

"Systems and methods for securely adding and removing users from a signing group for key-based transactions in multi-party computation systems" was invented by Nicolas Alhaddad (Boston), Olaf Stelling (Florence, Italy) and Cat-Tuong Le-Huy (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure describes technology for adjusting a quantity of users in a signing group for authorizing transactions utilizing multi-party-computation (MPC). A method can include receiving, by a server from a first signing client device amongst signing client devices in a signing group,...