US Patent Issued to SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY on July 15 for "Threshold secret sharing with hidden access structures" (Singaporean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,920, issued on July 15, was assigned to SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC (Fremont, Calif.).

"Threshold secret sharing with hidden access structures" was invented by Foo Yee Yeo (Shugart, Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Cryptographic sharing of a cryptographic secret among multiple parties provides a share of the cryptographic secret is generated for each party. Multiple threshold access structure tokens are generated for each party of the multiple parties. The threshold access structure tokens are generated for a party from one or more random token polynomials selected from a finite field based on the numbers of the multiple parties c...