ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,838, issued on April 21, was assigned to nChain Licensing AG (Zug, Switzerland).
"Digital signatures" was invented by Michaella Pettit (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of generating a share of a digital signature of a message, wherein a threshold number of different signature shares from respective participants of a group of participants are required to generate the digital signature, wherein each participant has a respective private key share, the method being performed by a first one of the participants and comprising: generating a first message-independent component and a first message-dependen...