ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,716, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to LOKBLOK INC. (Laguna Beach, Calif.).
"Non-custodial enrollment and recovery of a secret" was invented by William Reid Carlisle (St. Petersburg, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for non-custodial backup of a secret (1021) by the owner of said secret, assisted by a multiplicity n of recovery agents, each having individual public keys and private keys, and the owner having a first value (1013), comprising providing the owner with a first computer program, which at rest will reside on a computer readable medium, configured to enroll the secret by computing a public data set (1023) which d...