US Patent Issued to nChain Licensing on May 26 for "Non-native blockchain signatures" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,934, issued on May 26, was assigned to nChain Licensing AG (Zug, Switzerland).

"Non-native blockchain signatures" was invented by Paul Germouty (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for enabling non-native blockchain signatures to be verified in-script, wherein the method is performed by a first party and comprises: obtaining a second blockchain transaction, wherein the second blockchain transaction references a first blockchain transaction; generating a first signature based on at least the second blockchain transaction, wherein a first private key used to generate the first signature is set equal to on...