ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,774, issued on March 17, was assigned to nChain Licensing AG (Zug, Switzerland).
"Digital signatures of messages using signature shares" 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 com...