ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,274, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Nasdaq Inc. (New York).

"Systems and methods to dynamically provision multi-party computation (MPC) nodes" was invented by Jiayue Chen (Austin, Texas), Shankar Raju (Harrison, N.J.) and Nick Ciubotariu (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A digital asset custody system dynamically provisions clusters of multi-party computation (MPC) nodes to securely create different private key shares for signing digital asset transactions and generate blockchain addresses for digital asset owners (AOs). Each cluster of MPC nodes is configured for an AO and to operate in a plurality of computing envir...