US Patent Issued to nChain Licensing on Sept. 8 for "Generating shared cryptographic keys" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,354, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to nChain Licensing AG (Zug, Switzerland).

"Generating shared cryptographic keys" was invented by Michaella Pettit (London), Alexandru Paunoiu (London) and Craig Steven Wright (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of generating a share of a shared private key, wherein each participant of a group of participants has a respective share of a master private key, and wherein the method is performed by a first participant of the group and comprises: generating a first share of a first shared secret, wherein each other participant of the group generates a respective share o...