US Patent Issued to DFINITY STIFTUNG on Aug. 12 for "Distributed network having a plurality of subnets" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,628, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to DFINITY STIFTUNG (Zurich, Switzerland).

"Distributed network having a plurality of subnets" was invented by Jan Camenisch (Thalwil, Switzerland), Manu Drijvers (Zurich, Switzerland), Jens Groth (Zurich) and Bjorn Tackmann (Zurich, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodiment of a first aspect of the invention, there is provided a distributed network comprising a plurality of subnets. Each of the plurality of subnets comprises a changeable set of nodes. The network is configured to generate for each of the plurality of subnets, by a distributed key generation protocol, a...