US Patent Issued to nChain Licensing on May 19 for "Identity-based public-key generation protocol" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,124, issued on May 19, was assigned to nChain Licensing AG (Zug, Switzerland).

"Identity-based public-key generation protocol" was invented by Bassem Ammar (London), Wei Zhang (London) and John Fletcher (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for generating an identity-based cryptographic key, the method comprising: obtaining a set of private key shares and a set of corresponding public key shares, wherein each private key share is generated based on the personal identifier, and wherein at least one of the set of private key shares is generated by a respective one of a set of key-generating parties; genera...