ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,383, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to BLOCKDAEMON APS (Aarhus C, Denmark).

"Method for authenticating a user towards a multi-node party" was invented by Ivan Bjerre Damgard (Abyhoj, Denmark), Thomas Pelle Jakobsen (Marslet, Denmark), Jakob Illeborg Pagter (Aarhus V, Denmark) and Torben Lauritzen (Aarhus C, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for authentication of a user towards a multi-node party includes at least two nodes. The user contacts the nodes of the multi-node party, via a user application, and each of the nodes of the multi-node party generates a nonce and returns the nonce to the user application. The user...