ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,751, issued on May 27, was assigned to FMR LLC (Boston).
"Secret zero generation and usage" was invented by Rayan Raghuram (Boston), Mrinal Malhotra (Boston) and Paul Vetrano (Boston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method is provided for creating and using a secret zero by multiple participants in a group. The secret zero is representative of a master secret that protects other secrets. The method includes creating, by a computing device of each participant, a message comprising a second public key, a commitment to a polynomial, a plurality of encrypted private key shares assigned to the other participants, a pl...