US Patent Issued to Intel on April 22 for "Securing distributed electronic wallet shares" (British, Irish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,956, issued on April 22, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Securing distributed electronic wallet shares" was invented by Michael Nolan (Maynooth, Ireland), Davide Carboni (London) and Ned M. Smith (Beaverton, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for securing distributed shares of an electronic wallet. An example method includes provisioning a plurality of devices each hosting an e-wallet share with enhanced privacy identification (EPID) private keys for the e-wallet share. A signature is posted for the e-wallet share to a blockchain. A determination is made as to whether the e-wallet ...